Dissertations / Theses: 'Life stress'

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Haggart, James Charles. "LIFE STRESS AND ATHLETIC INJURIES." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/275370.

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Månsson, Ulf. "Stress : The Middle Managers everday life." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-89.

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Flera undersökningar åskådliggör att organisationsstruktur spelar en avgörande roll och påverkar anställdas attityder och arbetsresultat. Organisationskultur beskriver hur medlemmarna upplever organisationens karaktär och har en starkt motiverande effekt hos organisationens medarbetare. De humana organisationerna är de effektivaste och undersökningar styrker argumentet att ledare påverkar sina anställdas arbetstillfredsställelse och arbetsresultat. Med anledning av detta är det förhållandevis logiskt att de framgångsrikaste ledarna medvetet skapar en stark organisationskultur på sin arbetsplats.

Arbetstillfredsställelse har likheter med organisationskultur, men organisationskultur är beskrivande medan arbetsillfredsställelse är utvärderande. Vidare finns det samband mellan motivation och arbetstillfredsställelse. Arbetstillfredsställelse är ett resultat av det förflutna medan motivation är en förväntning avseende framtida händelser. Stress är en individuell process och faktumet att stressfaktorerna är additiva, medför att organisationerna måste ta hänsyn till den totala mängden stress som den anställde utsätts för. Vidare påvisar undersökningar att stressade ledare skapar stressade organisationer och anställda.

Syftet med studien är att beskriva hur mellanchefer vid Kriminalvården i Tidaholm upplever förväntningar från organisationen och organisationens anställda, samt hur detta på-verkar mellanchefernas individuella situation ur ett stress perspektiv.

Syftet uppfylls genom att applicera en kvalitativ ansats i vilken data insamlades genom personliga intervjuer. Målgruppen för undersökningen utgjordes nio mellanchefer (kriminalvårdsinspektörer), vilka hade samma chefer men olika arbetsuppgifter. Resultaten från studien visar att arbetsbelastning och tidsbrist är källor till stress. Tillsammans skapade dessa faktorer en upplevd känsla av otillräcklighet. Vidare klargjordes att bristfälligt ledarskap och känslan av osäkerhet var viktiga stressfaktorer. Internernas beteende kunde också skapa stressfulla situationer. Det fanns även exempel på dåliga erfarenheter när flera orutinerade medarbetare arbetade tillsammans. Stress vilken kunde härledas från överordnade bearbetades likartat av respondenterna, medan stress från underordnade bearbetades olika. Samtliga Kriminalvårdinspektörer menade att stress påverkar ledarskapet. Deras uppfattning hur stress påverkar överordnades och eget ledarskap varierade. Mellancheferna i denna studie besvärades av arbetsuppgifter vilka skickades direkt från Kriminalvårdsstyrelsen. Denna typ av uppgifter och ansvarsfördelning var svår att påverka. Vidare föreföll det inte vara ovanligt att denna typ av arbetsuppgifter utretts vid ett tidigare tillfälle. Dessa händelser indikerar att organisationen har klassiska problem att leda kunskap, såsom att lagra, handha, fördela, och sprida kunskap. I denna studie vandrar stress i båda riktningar, från botten mot toppen, eller från toppen mot botten.

Several investigations illustrate that the organizational structure has a mayor impact on worker attitudes and performance. Organizational culture describes how members experience the organizations characteristics and has a strong motivating effect to the organiza-tions employees. The most human organizations are more efficient and research strengthens the argument that leaders affect their subordinates job satisfaction and performance. It is then logical why the most successful leaders have created strong organizational cultures.

The approach job satisfaction has similarities with organizational culture but organizational culture is descriptive, while job satisfaction is evaluative. Further is there a relationship between motivation and satisfaction, even if they not are exactly comparable, actually they are quite different. Satisfaction is namely an outcome of the past and motivation is an expectation about the future. Stress is an individual process and the fact that stressors are additive means that the organizations have to consider the total sum stress an employee is exposed to. Furthermore illustrates research that stressed leaders create stressed organizations and employees.

The purpose of this thesis is to describe how middle managers in The Prison and Probation Service in Tidaholm perceive the expectations, from the organization and the organizations employees, and how this affects the middle managers individual situation from a perspective of stress.

The purpose was fulfilled by applying a qualitative research approach where data was collected through interviews. The target group included nine Middle managers (kriminalvårdsinspektörer) who had same superior managers but different working tasks. The results of the study indicates that workload was a source of stress and time was perceived to be a limit. This together created a feeling of insufficiency. Further were unclear leadership and the feeling of uncertainty important stress factors. The prisoners’ behaviour could also create stressful situations and there were bad experiences when several inexperienced employees worked together. Stress created from superiors was handled identically, while stress from subordinates was worked on differently. The respondents agreed that stress affects leadership. The opinions differed concerning how it affected their superiors- and their own leadership. What concerned the Middle managers were the assignments that came directly from the Kriminalvårdsstyrelsen. This flow of responsibilities and tasks were hard to affect. Often were the assignments investigated earlier, which indicates that the organization has classical knowledge management problems, like to store, handle and spread knowledge. In this study walks stress in both directions, from the bottom to the top, or from the top to the bottom.

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Salander, Katarina. "Early life stress and psychopathology : The effects of early life stress on brain development: Implications for psychopathology." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-3475.

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Several studies have shown that children who grow up under adverse care giving conditions are prone to develop a broad spectrum of different problems, ranging from mild depression to severe psychosomatic pathology later in life. A carefully treated child develops a different attachment strategy and biochemical response than a maltreated child. Early adverse events seem to program the stress response to become either over or under reactive which in turn have the potential to alter brain development. Major consequences include reduced plasticity and abnormal frontal lobe activity. This review further investigates the emotional and cognitive development in children exposed to early life abuse or neglect, trying to get a comprehensive picture of different symptoms that might contribute to later psychopathology.

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Kaufman, Felicia D. "Life-stress assessment in adolescents : validation of the Abbreviated Life Events and Difficulties Schedule - Adolescent version (ALEDS-A)." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21227.

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The purpose of this study was to validate an abbreviated interview schedule for the assessment of adolescent life stress based on the original Life Events and Difficulties Schedule (LEDS) by Brown and Harris (1978). The main objective of the abbreviated instruments was to elicit the severe stressors shown to be of etiological significance for predicting psychiatric disorder without requiring two hours to administer. A non-clinical sample of 58 adolescents (mean age = 15.67 years) completed the Childhood Depression Inventory (Kovacs, 1982), the Abbreviated Life Event and Difficulty Schedule - Adolescent version (ALEDS-A), and the full-length LEDS-Adolescent Version (LEDS-A). The abbreviated instrument elicited significantly fewer minor stressors, while retaining its ability to solicit the most severe stressors in a 30-minute time period. Results are interpreted with reference to Brown and Harris's (1978) sociological theory of major life stress and depression.

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Manderson, Cameron Carlton-Gregory. "Life stress, work stress, and job performance| Does conscientiousness make a difference?" Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1567953.

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As organizations become increasingly complex, research into the sources and effects of employee stress is increasingly warranted. The present study examined the relationship between personal life stress, work stress, and job performance. In addition, the role of conscientiousness as a possible moderating variable was analyzed. Several studies regarding the relationship between stress and work performance were reviewed. In the present study, participants completed measures of life stress, job stress, and personality. Supervisors rated the job performance of participants. A significant relationship was found between personal life stress and job stress such that each type of stress was higher when the other was present. Neither personal life stress nor job stress were related to job performance. Conscientiousness was not found to moderate the stress-job performance relationships. Implications of the study and future directions are explored.

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Prakash, Kavita. "Examining the relationship between life stress, skating specific stress and figure skating performance." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0012/MQ32553.pdf.

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Meadows, Marianne. "Life experience and health." Thesis, University of York, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.254654.

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de, Faye Barbara J. "Stress and coping near the end of life." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6203.

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The stressors facing people who must deal with a terminal diagnosis and palliative care are complex and varied. However, relatively little is known about the manner in which people cope with these stressors. Additionally, there has been little research into those characteristics that may predispose individuals to cope in particular ways. Therefore, this study investigates the process of coping with various end-of-life stressors, while also considering individual differences in how people prefer to cope. Fifty-two people who were receiving palliative care for advanced cancer underwent in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The interviews considered the tendency to monitor (focus on) or blunt (avoid) threat-relevant cues when dealing with stress, and whether this tendency was predictive of variations in actual coping behaviour, or variations in the experience of distress. Stress and coping were examined within three distinct conceptual dimensions comprising physical symptoms, social issues, and existential concerns. Specifically, participants were asked to identify their most significant problem in each dimension, and then to report how they coped with those problems. Their coping responses were then coded as reflecting either "problem-focused," "emotion-focused approach" or "emotion-focused avoidance". The results revealed that, unlike other health-related research, the tendency to "monitor" or "blunt" did not predict variations in the experience of psychological distress or variations in self-reported coping behaviour. Across the three dimensions of stress, physical symptoms received the highest severity ratings, but the dimensions were significantly intercorrelated with one another. A consistent individual difference was also noted in terms of the numbers of coping strategies participants generated to manage stressors. That is, participants who reported using a high number of coping strategies to manage a social stressor also reported using a high number of strategies in response to stressors in the other two dimensions. Participants generally used a combination of specific coping strategies to deal with their stressors. However, there were clear differences across dimensions of stress in the relative use of problem-focused versus emotion-focused strategies. Problem-focused coping was uncommon for existential issues while emotion-focused approach and emotion-focused avoidance strategies were used less frequently for physical stressors. Coping efforts were not related to psychological distress or to discrete anxiety and depressive disorders, which were diagnosed in 44.2% of the participants.

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Eck, Marleen Magdalena Margarethe van. "Stress, mood, and cortisol dynamics in daily life." [Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht] ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1996. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=6695.

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Khan, Sameer. "Probalistic Stress Rupture Life Analysis of Turbine Blades." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/970.

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Brown, Steven D. "The life of stress : seeing and saying dysphoria." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363716.

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Wu, Yonghe. "Sustained epigenetic programming of POMC by early life stress." Diss., lmu, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-143031.

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Fairhurst, Anna. "Post-traumatic stress disorder in later life : psychosocial influences." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275294.

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Dispenza, Franco. "Minority Stress and Life Role Saliency among Sexual Minorities." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cps_diss/66.

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This study explored the influence of minority stress on the career and life-space developmental trajectory (Super, 1990) with a sample of gay, bisexual, and queer men. Approximately 202 self-identifying sexual minority males were recruited across the United States via the internet. The study tested a model in which dyadic adjustment and career satisfaction mediated the relationship between three specific minority stressors (internalized homophobia, concealment motivation, and stigma sensitivity) and four specific life roles (partner, occupational, homemaker, and parental life roles). A measured variable path analysis (MVPA) was conducted with the following measures: the Internalized Homophobia Scale (Martin & Dean, 1987); Stigma Sensitivity Scale (Mohr & Kendra, 2011); Concealment Motivation Scale (Mohr & Kendra, 2011); Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Sharpley & Rogers, 1984); Career Satisfaction Scale (Greenhaus, Parasuraman, & Wormley, 1990); and the Life Role Salience Scales (Amatea, Cross, Clark, & Bobby, 1986). The data fit the proposed model well. Internalized homophobia and stigma sensitivity significantly contributed to dyadic adjustment, while dyadic adjustment significantly contributed to partner role saliency. Dyadic adjustment partially mediated the relationship between internalized homophobia and partner role saliency, as internalized homophobia directly contributed to ratings of partner role saliency and parental role saliency. Dyadic adjustment fully mediated the relationship between stigma sensitivity and partner role saliency. None of the minority stressors significantly contributed to ratings of career satisfaction, nor did career satisfaction mediate the relationship between minority and the life role saliency measures. Implication for practitioners, recommendations for social justice, as well as limitation and directions for future research were provided.

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Gardener, Nigel Ian. "Probabilistic strength-life model for graphite fibers under stress." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23754.

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Kinman, Gail Francis. "Occupational stress and work-life balance in UK academics." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/14325.

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The research presented in this thesis aimed to provide insight into the work-related wellbeing of a little-studied occupational group: academic employees working in universities in the UK. More specifically, it examined how aspects of the content and context of academic work were related to the health, job satisfaction, work-life balance, and turnover intentions of employees. The findings of an initial questionnaire study (Study 1) administered to a national sample of academic staff highlighted a number of features of work that were strong predictors of psychological distress and job satisfaction, and worthy of further investigation. Two main issues emerged from this initial research that were examined in greater depth in a subsequent national study of academic employees (Study 2). Firstly, the predictive validity Of two theoretical models of job stress (the Job Demand-Control-Support and the Effort-Reward Imbalance models) was tested in explaining strain outcomes. A model that comprised elements of both theoretical frameworks (most notably job control, rewards and overcommitment) was found to be a more effective predictor of some strain outcomes than either model independently. A combination of generic and job-specific demands was found to be a major predictor of job satisfaction. Secondly, the nature, predictors and outcomes of work-life conflict experienced by academics were investigated through the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. A model that combined generic and job-specific job demands, working practices, supportive features of the working environment, and over-commitment predicted a considerable proportion of the variance in perceived conflict. Findings suggest that preferences for work-life integration are subject to considerable variation, as are the strategies utilised by academics to minimise conflict between work and home. Although certain practices might facilitate work-life balance, others pose a risk to wellbeing. The final study (Study 3) introduced a longitudinal element to this programme of research. Comparisons between the findings of Studies 1 and 2 (conducted six years apart) found no significant improvement in levels of specific stressors and strains in the study period. Comparisons were also made between the overall levels of psychological health of academic staff and those reported by other professional groups and the general population of the UK. The very poor level of psychological health found amongst academics in 1998 remained stable in 2004; this gave cause for concern, as did the discrepancy between levels of job demands and social support found, and those recommended by Health and Safety Executive benchmarks for the management of specific job stressors. The findings of this research programme highlight the important role of the working environment in shaping the antecedents, experience and expression of occupational stress. It is therefore argued that a job-specific approach to the study of workplace stress has greater potential to aid the development of interventions to promote the wellbeing of employees. Based on the findings reported in this thesis, a range of strategies and initiatives are recommended that have the potential to improve the wellbeing and job satisfaction of academic employees in the light of growing concerns about recruitment and retention in the sector.

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Harper, Gillian Jane. "Stress and adaptation among elders in life-care communities /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487949150070604.

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Schönfeld, Sabine, and Anke Ehlers. "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Autobiographical Memories in Everyday Life." Sage, 2017. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A35471.

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Evidence from self-reports and laboratory studies suggests that recall of nontrauma autobiographical memories may be disturbed in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but investigations in everyday life are sparse. This study investigated unintentional nontrauma and trauma memories in trauma survivors with and without PTSD (N = 52), who kept an autobiographical memory diary for a week. We investigated whether unintentional nontrauma memories show an overgeneral memory bias and further memory abnormalities in people with PTSD, and whether unintentional trauma memories show distinct features. Compared to the no-PTSD group, the PTSD group recorded fewer nontrauma memories, which were more overgeneral, more often from before the trauma or related to the trauma, were perceived as distant, and led to greater dwelling. Trauma memories were more vivid, recurrent, and present and led to greater suppression and dwelling. Within the PTSD group, the same features distinguished trauma and nontrauma memories. Results are discussed regarding theories of autobiographical memory and PTSD.

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Saxbe, Darby Elizabeth. "Stress, mood, and social engagement in everyday family life." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1973896511&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Helaly, Alaa El-din A. "Molecular studies on plants to enhance their stress tolerance." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2004. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2005/242/.

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Environmental stresses such as drought, high salt and low temperature affect plant growth and decrease crop productivity extremely. It is important to improve stress tolerance of the crop plant to increase crop yield under stress conditions. The Arabidopsis thaliana salt tolerance 1 gene (AtSTO1) was originally identified by Lippuner et al., (1996). In this study around 27 members of STO-like proteins were identified in Arabidopsis thaliana, rice and other plant species. The STO proteins have two consensus motifs (CCADEAAL and FCV(L)EDRA). The STO family members can be regarded as a distinct class of C2C2 proteins considering their low sequence similarity to other GATA like proteins and poor conservation in the C-terminus. AtSTO1 was found to be induced by salt, cold and drought in leaves and roots of 4-week-old Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type plants. The expression of AtSTO1 under salt and cold stress was more pronounced in roots than in leaves. The data provided here revealed that the AtSTO1 protein is localized in the nucleus. The observation that AtSTO1 localizes in the nucleus is consistent with its proposed function as a transcription factor. AtSTO1-dependent phenotypes were observed when plant were grown at 50 mM NaCl on agar plates. Leaves of AtSTO1 overexpression lines were bigger with dark green coloration, whereas stunted growth and yellowish leaves were observed in wild-type and RNAi plants. Also, the AtSTO1 overexpression plants when exposed to long-term cold stress had a red leaf coloration which was much stronger than in wild-type and RNAi lines. Growth of AtSTO1 overexpression lines in long term under salt and cold stress was always associated with long roots which was more pronounced than in wild-type and RNAi lines.

Proline accumulation increased more strongly in leaves and roots of AtSTO1 overexpression lines than in tissues of wild-type and RNAi lines when treated with 200 mM NaCl, exposed to cold stress or when watering was prevented for one day or two weeks. Also, soluble sugar content increased to higher levels under salt, cold and drought stress in AtSTO1 overexpression lines when compared to wild-type and RNAi lines. The increase in soluble sugar content was detected in AtSTO1 overexpression lines after long-term (2 weeks) growth of plants under these stresses. Anthocyanins accumulated in leaves of AtSTO1 overexpression lines when exposed to long term salt stress (200 mM NaCl for 2 weeks) or to 4°C for 6 and 8 weeks. Also, anthocyanin content was increased in flowers of AtSTO1 overexpression plants kept at 4°C for 8 weeks. Taken together these data indicate that overexpression of AtSTO1 enhances abiotic stress toleranc via a more pronounced accumulation of compatible solutes under stress.
Umweltstress wie zum Beispiel Trockenheit, Salz und niedrige Temperaturen beeinflussen in erheblichem Maße das pflanzliche Wachstum und haben einen negativen Einfluss auf Ertragsleistungen. Untersuchungen zur Verbesserung der Stresstoleranz und des Ernteertrages von Kulturpflanzen sind daher von großer Bedeutung. Pflanzen passen sich Umweltveränderungen durch physiologische und entwicklungsabhängige Prozesse an. In den letzten Jahren wurden zahlreiche Gene identifiziert, die als Reaktion von Umweltstress in der Pflanze aktiviert werden. Salzstress bewirkt negative Veränderungen des pflanzlichen Wasserstatus, die auf veränderte K+/Na+-Verhältnisse und Na+- und Cl--Konzentrationen zurückzuführen sind. Neben Veränderungen in der Bewässerungspraxis spielt heute die Züchtung salztoleranter Pflanzen und die biotechnologische Verbesserung von Kulturpflanzen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle.

Im Rahmen der Doktorarbeit wurde ein bisher wenig untersuchtes Gen, welches AtSTO1 genannt wird, anhand der Modellpflanze Ackerschmalwand (lat. Arabidopsis thaliana) analysiert. Das Gen wird durch Umweltstress, insbesondere durch Kälte, aktiviert. Es wurden gentechnisch veränderte Pflanzen hergestellt, die eine verstärkte Aktivität des AtSTO1-Gens aufweisen. Diese Pflanzen zeigten bei Vorliegen von hohen Salzkonzentration ein im Vergleich zu unveränderten Pflanzen verbessertes Wachstum. Diese Stimulation des pflanzlichen Wachstums unter Salzstress-Bedingungen war begleitet von einer vermehrten Bildung bestimmter chemischer Substanzen, die die Pflanzen in die Lage versetzen, mit dem Stress besser fertig zu werden. Dazu gehört beispielsweise die Aminosäure Prolin, deren Konzentration in den gentechnisch veränderten Pflanzen nach Stressbehandlung stärker erhöht ist, als in den unveränderten Kontrollpflanzen oder in Pflanzen, die eine reduzierte AtSTO1-Aktivität besaßen. Auch die Gehalte einiger Zucker waren in den gentechnisch modifizierten Pflanzen unter Stress erhöht. Insgesamt hat sich gezeigt, dass AtSTO1 eine wichtige Aufgabe in der Stressantwort spielt. Weitere Untersuchungen sollten es ermöglichen, auch bei Kulturpflanzen, wie etwa Reis, die Stresstoleranz durch Veränderung verwandter Gene zu erhöhen.

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vollständiger Name des Autors: Abdallah Helaly, Alaa El-Din

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Minshall, Brianna Lynn. "Sex differences in stress-enhanced fear learning and anxiety-like behavior following acute early life stress: Role for circulating gonadal steroid hormones." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1618562926270776.

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Barsky, Jeannette Lois, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Women's health, occupational, and life experiences : a life-cycle perspective." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1999, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/99.

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Almost 40% of the Canadian workforce shows signs of progressive burnout. For a variety of reasons, stress within the workplace appears to be increasing. The popular press and academic journals suggest that chronic job stres, burnout, will be most significant workplace issue in the new millennium. Although both men and women suffer from stress and burnout, it appears that women are at a greater risk than men. Unfortunately, research on the relationship between women's stress and their heatlh has not kept pace with the popularization of the problem. We could understand this relationship better if we had more information about women, their health history (including phases of development over the life span), and occupational history. Relatedly, as the baby-boomer generation ages to mid-life, there appears to be a sea change on the horizon: one in which women are demanding answers and knowledge about the process of menopause and its effect on their lives, inside and outside the home. To fill this void, the proposed research will address the life change of women, and specifically, how their stages of development and occupational and health histories relate to the experience of burnout.
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Idris, Mohd Kamel. "Occupational Stress in Academic life: A Study of Academics of Malaysian Public Universities." The University of Waikato, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2597.

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Stress can lead to poor health and loss of productivity among employees across occupations. Stress does not only affect individuals but also organizations by causing work absence and staff turnover. Academics in Malaysian public universities are no exception. Due to the rapid developments in tertiary education, academics in Malaysian public universities are believed to be experiencing increased job demands that potentially lead to increased stress. This study was carried out to examine: i) the direct effect of role stressors (i.e. role overload, role ambiguity and role conflict) on strain; ii) the direct effect of strain on the outcomes of strain (i.e. cynicism, professional efficacy, and organizational commitment); iii) the moderation effects of organizational support, peer support, and self-efficacy on the relationships between role stressors and strain; iv) the mediation effect of strain on the relationship between role stressors and strain; and v) the mediation effect of outcomes of strain (i.e. cynicism, professional efficacy, and organizational commitment) on the relationship between strain and intention to leave among those academics. This study used a non-experimental two-wave panel design. Eleven of the 12 study variables were measured using pre-existing scales except for self-efficacy, iii which was measured by items specially developed for this study. A longitudinal survey with a six-month time interval yielded 357 respondents (academics) at time 1 and 210 respondents at time 2. Data were analyzed using multiple regression, hierarchical regression, and structural equation modeling (SEM) to test for direct effects, moderation effects and mediation effects respectively. The findings of this study indicate that academics who experienced increased levels of role stressors were more likely to have increased levels of strain. Subsequently, the strained academics were more likely to show higher levels of cynicism and lower levels of professional efficacy and organizational commitment. The predicted moderators (i.e organizational support, peer support, and self-efficacy) had no significant influence on the relationships between role stressors and strain. Mediation analyses consisted of two parts. In the first part, I found that strain strongly mediated the relationship between role ambiguity and outcomes of strain (i.e. cynicism, professional efficacy, and organizational commitment). In the subsequent mediation analysis, I found that cynicism and organizational commitment fully mediated the relationship between strain and intention to leave, but not professional efficacy.

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Li, Hong. "College stress and psychological well-being : vision in life as a coping resource /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25017408.

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Pitzen, Simon Maria [Verfasser], Maria [Akademischer Betreuer] Kateri, and Udo [Akademischer Betreuer] Kamps. "Step-stress accelerated life testing with two stress factors / Simon Maria Pitzen ; Maria Kateri, Udo Kamps." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1240904665/34.

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Burke, Dominic Francis. "Stories of stress: feeling, thinking and the flourishing of life." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education, 2007. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00004780/.

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[Abstract]: This research responded to calls in the literature for more studies into subjective components of student stress as well as for innovative studies of appropriate counselling interventions. An innovative, individualised, body-mind intervention was offered to university students experiencing emotional stress overwhelm. Integral to the intervention was an extensive list of feelings, representing the approach-avoidance structure of the motivational system. Feelings qualitatively differentiate emotional experiences, and the list was found to be useful for identifying the feelings around emotional experiences. It was proposed that how one thinks about feelings is a key to resolving emotional stress and would facilitate the flourishing of life.There have been recent calls for development of first-person methodologies for investigating experiences, and, since the intervention was individualised, analysis of the unique data set took a narrative interpretive approach. Narrative data, evoked by the feelings list, were interpreted to formulate students’ “stories of stress” then analysed to study their stressful emotional experiences.This study demonstrates an innovative method for resolving emotional stress. Feelings were identified clearly, prompting students to think differently about emotional experiences. The study also demonstrates a method for researching those experiences of emotion. Analyses of consultants’ notes highlighted inter-connections and relationships between feelings and experiences throughout clients’ life-stories. Analyses of the data demonstrated a way of making sense of “emotional stress” and how the use of the feelings list could facilitate an individual’s thinking differently about experiences and resolving personal issues. For the participants of this study, feelings of grief and guilt were identified more than feelings of fear of loss for the issues discussed, suggesting that student's behaviours were motivated more by guilt than by fear. The study concludes with a discussion of how the research contributes to the counselling field and with suggestions for continuing research.

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Kim, Eunice Y. "Life stress and the course of early-onset bipolar disorder." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3178325.

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Farrar, Jessica. "Life Stress, Maternal Inhibitory Control, and Quality of Parenting Behaviors." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/24175.

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Negative life stress and maternal inhibitory control are both critical ingredients involved in the shaping and maintaining of the quality of parenting behaviors. This study explored both how the experience of stressful life events and inhibitory control relate to two particular types of parenting behaviors: harsh/controlling and autonomy-supportive. Given that these two types of parenting have broad implications for children’s developmental trajectories, it is important to further enhance our understanding of the etiological factors that both shape and maintain parenting practices. Utilizing a high-risk sample (i.e. low SES, high presence of documented child maltreatment) of mothers with pre-school aged children, this study did not support the relationship between the experience of stressful life events, maternal inhibitory control and quality of parenting. However, post hoc analyses of life stress using a measure of objective SES did yield a significant link between stress and the presence of autonomy-supportive parenting. This study expands the current understanding of how stress and inhibitory control relate to parenting behaviors. Implications of this study for practice and research are discussed.

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Casuso, Liliana, Rafael Gargurevich, den Noortgate Wim Van, and den Bergh Omer Van. "Urban life stress in preadolescents: a longitudinal assessment in Lima." Escuela Profesional de Psicología de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Turismo y Psicología de la Universidad de San Martín de Porres, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/324727.

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Este estudio tiene como objetivo explorar longitudinalmente los eventos estresantes en preadolescentes de una zona urbana de Lima. Una muestra no clínica (N = 170, 9-11 años) proveniente de niveles socioeconómicos (SES) alto y bajo en la zona urbana de Lima, fue evaluada en cuatro momentos a lo largo de dos años. El análisis multinivel mostró que la intensidad de estrés percibido disminuyó durante los dos años. Los preadolescentes de SES bajo, mostraron más estrés sobre sí mismos y sobre sus familia en comparación con los de SES alto. Las niñas se estresaban más por sus familias y amigos que los niños. Finalmente se describen los estresantes más frecuentes encontrados en este grupo de preadolescentes limeños que viven en una zona urbana.
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Perng, Shoa-Jen. "LIFE STRESS, APPROACH COPING, AND HEALTH-RISK BEHAVIORS IN TAIWANESE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1031255675.

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Gothers, Ellen B. "Quality of life in brain injury survivors and caregiver stress /." View abstract, 2000. http://library.ccsu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/showit.php3?id=1617.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2000.
Thesis advisor: Charles Mate-Kole. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts [in Psychology]." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-76).

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Myers, Christopher Aaron. "Life Event Perception: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to the Antecedents of the Life Stress Response." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3361.

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It has been often argued that life events have an impact on our physical and psychological well-being. In general, research supports this connection between life events and general health, though some argue that simply experiencing life events has a measurable and predictable impact our health, while others contend that this effect is mediated by the appraisal process. Further, research has identified a number of different factors (hypothetically stratified into pre-existing beliefs, external resources and demands, and behavioral activation and coping strategies) that may influence appraisal and general health. The current study attempts to integrate these findings by testing structural models of the relationship between life events, life stress, and general health while considering the appraisal process and other potential moderators of appraisal and general health. University students (N=204) were tested using 17 assessment measures representing 7 latent constructs of Life Events, Life Stress, Appraisal, General Health, Beliefs, External, and Activation. Results of the measurement models required model respecification to combine Appraisal and Beliefs into one construct and External and Activation into another construct, resulting in a five-factor hypothetical structural model. The resulting empirical structural model is a partially-mediated model that suggests that appraisal and pre-existing beliefs influence the relationship between life events and life stress, and that life events significantly impact measured life stress. The empirical model also indicates that general health is significantly impacted by life stress, as well as behavioral activation and external resources and demands. Practical implications of the findings and recommendations for further research were discussed.
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Limongiello, Jennifer Rose. "Perceived Job Stress and Life Style Behaviors' Effects on the Quality of Life of Registered Nurses." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3901.

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The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine to what extent work demands as measured by perceived job stress affected the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) as determined by the number of unhealthy days of registered nurses in the United States. This study was also an investigation of the extent to which other variables such as body-mass index (BMI) and certain lifestyle behaviors affected the HRQOL (number of unhealthy days). The independent variables were perceived job stress, weight (BMI), and lifestyle factors such as tobacco and alcohol use, physical inactivity, and the mindful eating score, and the dependent variable was the HRQOL (measured by the summary index of unhealthy days) of the RNs. This study was guided by the enhanced DRIVE model which describes how individual differences interact with perceived job stress to affect health outcomes. A cross-sectional study design was used and relevant data to answer the research question were collected from 95 participants via a SurveyMonkey survey that was advertised in an e-newsletter from the Nurse Practitioner Association of Continuing Education as well as posted on LinkedIn groups. Logistic regression and Spearman's correlation were used to test the hypothesized associations. There were no statistically significant associations between BMI, alcohol use, smoking, inactivity, and the HRQOL. However, there was a weak correlation between perceived job stress, the mindful eating score, BMI, the total number of unhealthy days and the total number of days that the nurses' daily activities were affected by unhealthy days. The positive social change implication of this study is that, for nurses, awareness of perceived job stress is important in promoting a healthy lifestyle and reducing the risk of chronic diseases.

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Blohm, Martin, and Axel Konradsson. "Konstruktionen av stress : En kvalitativ studie om hur stress upplevs i banksektorn." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-139961.

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Bakgrund: Arbetslivet förändras ständigt till följd av digitaliseringen och tillgången till information ökar kraftigt. Banksektorn är en av de sektorer som påverkats mest av dessa förändringar och studier har visat att arbetsrelaterad stress ökar till följd av detta. Det är lätt att utifrån studier och fackliga undersökningar förknippa stress i banksektorn med arbetsmiljöproblem eftersom fokus ligger på ohälsa och sjukskrivning. Samtidigt vill många människor arbeta i banksektorn och i andra yrkesgrupper med liknande karaktärsdrag. Det behövs en djupare förståelse för stress i banksektorn och hur den kan upplevas i moderna, föränderliga yrken med stor informationsbearbetning. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att förstå hur stress upplevs, med banksektorn som exempel, samt att utifrån detta belysa problematiken kring begreppet stress. Metod: Detta är en kvalitativ flerfallstudie med ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom 10 semistrukturerade intervjuer från tre svenska banker. Studien har utgått från empirin och har således en induktiv ansats. Slutsats: Studien visar att ett arbete i banksektorn är intensivt och innebär höga krav i form av långa arbetsdagar, komplexa arbetsuppgifter, deadlines och ansvar. Dessa krav ger upphov till stress som upplevs både negativt och positivt. Negativ stress upplevs vid en förlorad kontrollkänsla och vid en konfliktkänsla mellan arbete och privatliv. Positiv stress upplevs genom en känsla av utmaning och, till viss del, adrenalinrus. Studien har visat att stress upplevs på olika sätt, både positivt och negativt. Till följd av detta kan begreppet stress behöva nyanseras och bli mindre förknippat med negativa värden.
Background: Work is constantly changing due to digitalization and access to information is rapidly increasing. These changes affect the banking sector and studies have shown that work related stress increases as a result. One can easily associate stress in the banking sector with problems in the work environment since that is what studies and surveys are focusing on. At the same time, many people find the banking sector attractive, as a workplace. This study is necessary, because we need a better understanding about how stress can be perceived in modern professions, characterized by the processing of information. Aim: The aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how stress is perceived, using the banking sector as an example. Further, we aim to illustrate the problem concerning the concept stress. Methodology: This is a qualitative case study using the perspective of social constructivism. The empirical data has been collected through semi-structured interviews with three Swedish banks. The study has an inductive approach. Conclusion: This study shows that the banking sector is an intensive workplace and involves high demands as long working hours, complex tasks, deadlines and responsibility. These demands contribute to a lot of stress. Negative stress is perceived when the sense of control is lost and when a conflict between work and personal life arises. Positive stress is perceived when a sense of challenge appears and, to some extent, with a feeling of adrenaline. The results have proven that stress in the banking sector is perceived in various ways, both negative and positive. The concept stress might therefore need to be altered and be less associated with a negative value.

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Keady, Darcy A. "Student Stress: An Analysis of Stress Levels Associated with Higher Education in the Social Sciences." DigitalCommons@USU, 1999. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2598.

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A university sample of238 undergraduate and graduate students between the ages of 19 and 58 completed the Student Stress Measure. Specifically, upper-division undergraduate students and clinical/nonclinical graduate students in social science programs (FHD, Social Work, Sociology, Psychology) were measured for stress level differences due to their particular academic requirements. Results indicate that, overall, graduate students are more stressed than undergraduate students. Of the graduate students, Sociology students were most stressed in terms of Lifestyle stress scores. The comparison of clinical and non-clinical graduate students shows that there is no difference in stress levels. The Psychology and MFT graduate student comparison indicates that Psychology students are more stressed than MFT students on the Lifestyle Scale only. Fourteen program requirements are related positively to stress levels. The Academic Stressors Scale was the only stress measure that yielded statistical significance for gender, employment status, and marital status. Age correlated negatively with the Events Scale. Confounding factors, such as sample size, are addressed. Suggestions for future research are provided.

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Hickox, Sherrie Danene. "Life Stress and Adjustment: Effects of Cognitive Content and Cognitive Organization." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331234/.

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Individual differences of cognitive organization and content were investigated as they relate to adaptation to remote, recent, and immediate life stress. Outside the field of stress, prior researchers have implicated cognitive organization with adjustment and cognitive content with specific psychopathology. As for behavioral adaptation to life stress, cognitive organization was viewed as a major factor in emotional vulnerability and adjustment, and cognitive content as a major factor in the mood disturbance of depression. Behavioral adaptation was defined in terms of current emotional vulnerability, adjustment and negative changes in the immediate (last six months), recent (over six months), and remote (over one year) past.

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Julian, Teresa W. "Physiological and social-psychological bases of stress associated with the male mid-life transition /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487332636474028.

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Farmer, Rodger. "The role of life events in deliberate self-poisoning." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328091.

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Wirsén, Sarah. "Berättelser om stress : En kvalitativ studie om stress, utbrändhet och narrativitet." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-19242.

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Inom denna uppsats har jag studerat stressrelaterad psykisk ohälsa. Syftet med min uppsats var att, ur ett socialpsykologiskt perspektiv, försöka finna insikt och förståelse inför ett problem som kan orsaka både ekonomiskt och själsligt lidande för samhälle och individ. Vidare syftade min uppsats till att finna ett komplement, till den nödvändiga fortsatta forskningen, rörande stressrelaterad psykisk ohälsa. Frågeställningen löd som följer: På vilket sätt beskriver och speglar människan, sina upplevelser, relaterade till den livsperiod, som genomsyrats av stressrelaterad psykisk ohälsa? Uppsatsens empiriska material består av intervjuer, vilka jag tolkat och analyserat utifrån ett hermeneutiskt perspektiv. Mitt resultat påvisar att; innan och under sin sjukdomsperiod befinner sig människor med stressrelaterad psykisk ohälsa inom ett icke-kommunikativt tillstånd, både gentemot andra människor, samt gentemot sig själva. Läkprocessen handlar om att lära nytt, att ändra på sig, samt att påbörja en utforskande livsberättelse. Berättandet blir till en del av läkprocessen eftersom den tillhandahåller självreflexiva element. Vidare påvisar mitt resultat att stress och utbrändhet kan relateras till arbetsplatsen, men att det även kan relateras till personliga egenskaper, fritiden eller/och de moderna samhällsstrukturerna.
In this paper I have studied stress-related mental illness. The aim of my essay was to, from a social psychological perspective, find insight and understanding for a problem that can cause both financial and psychological suffering for society and the individual. My aim was also to find a complement to further, necessary research on stress-related mental illness. Issue stated: How does people describe and reflect, their experiences, related to the life period, permeated by stress-related mental illness? The empirical material consists of interviews, which I interpreted and analyzed from a hermeneutic perspective. My findings are: before and during their period of illness, people with stress-related mental health problems, are in a non-communicative state, both towards others and towards themselves. The healing process is about learning new things, to change themselves, and begin to communicate their life story. The narrative becomes a part of the healing process because it provides self-reflexive elements. Further, my results demonstrate that stress and burnout may be related to the workplace, but it can also be related to personal characteristics, leisure or/and modern social structures.

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Brown, Tiffany Leigh. "Stressful life events and coping in college students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/522.

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Scott, Karen A. "Alterations in adult behavior as a result of early life manipulations." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1354550657.

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McAmis, Lindsey Brianne. "Role of Stress in the Onset of Diabetes Mellitus in Mice." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/125.

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This study investigated the effects of stress on the onset of chemically-induced diabetes mellitus in mice. Sixty male ICR mice were randomly divided into 6 groups of 10 mice. A factorial arrangement of 2 factors (streptozotocin (STZ) and stress) was used to produce 6 treatments. Three levels of STZ (0, 25 and 50 mg/kg bodyweight) and 2 levels of stress (stress and no-stress) were used. Stressed groups were exposed to restraint stress 6 hours daily for 18 days. Mice bodyweight, feed consumption and blood glucose levels were recorded regularly during the study period. At the end of the study period, all mice were euthanized and blood was collected and centrifuged to obtain serum for a corticosterone assay. The highest corticosterone levels occurred in the stressed mice that received the highest dose of STZ. There was no difference in corticosterone levels of the 0 STZ stress and no-stress groups. STZ was the significant factor in corticosterone level. The no-stress mice receiving the highest level of STZ showed the greatest increase in glucose levels, while the overall glucose levels of the other groups remained relatively constant. The findings suggest that restraint stress may delay the onset of chemically-induced diabetes mellitus in mice.

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Patel, Purvika. "Major life events and change in health related behaviours." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245428.

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Tollman, Zackary Donald. "Rumination about stressful life events measuring post-event rumination /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2008/z_tollman_051209.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in psychology)--Washington State University, December 2008.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 10, 2009). "Department of Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-33).

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Woodhouse, Anne E. "Life events during pregnancy and early infant temperament." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.344014.

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Ozsoy, Serhan. "Vibration Induced Stress And Accelerated Life Analyses Of An Aerospace Structure." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12606966/index.pdf.

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Fatigue failure of metallic structures operating under dynamic loading is a common occurrence in engineering applications. It is difficult to estimate the response of complicated systems analytically, due to structure&
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s Missile Warning Sensor - Cowling assembly is analyzed. Analytical, numerical and experimental approaches are used wherever necessary to perform stress and fatigue analyses. Operational flight tests are used for obtaining the loading history at the analyzed location by using sensors. Operational vibration profiles are created by synthesizing the data (LMS Mission Synthesis). Numerical fatigue analysis of the assembly is done for determining the natural modes and the critical locations on the assembly by using a finite element model (MSC Fatigue). In addition, numerical multiaxial PSD analysis is performed for relating the experimental results (Ansys). Residual stresses due to riveting are determined (MSC Marc) and included in experimental analysis as mean stresses. Bolt analysis is performed analytically (Hexagon) for keeping the v assembly stresses in safe levels while mounting the experimental prototype to the test fixture. Fatigue tests for determining the accelerated life parameters are done by an electromagnetic shaker and stress data is collected. Afterwards, fatigue test is performed for determining whether the assembly satisfies the required operational life. Resonance test is performed at the frequency in which the critical location is at resonance, since there was no failure observed after fatigue testing. A failure is obtained during resonance test. At the end of the study, an analytical equation is brought up which relates accelerated life test durations with equivalent alternating stresses. Therefore, optimization of the accelerated life test duration can be done, especially in military applications, by avoiding the maximum stress level to reach or exceed the yield limit.

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Søndergaard, Hans Peter. "Post-traumatic stress disorder and life events among recently resettled refugees /." Stockholm, 2002. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2002/91-7349-318-x/.

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O'Doherty, Fiona. "Life events, stress and the consumption of heroin, alcohol and tobacco." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1988. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21327.

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A. considerable literature exists on a possible link between life events and illness, both physical and psychiatric. This literature is reviewed in the first chapters of this thesis. The evidence that life events affect drug use is then examined. A number of methodological flaws exist in these studies and it is therefore difficult to draw any conclusions about the impact of life events. In part II of the thesis, models of drug use are reviewed and some preliminary hypotheses about the nature of the link between life events and drug use are drawn up. These hypotheses are (1) Drug use is a response to stress (2) Drug use is maintained by the stress which arises from drug use and (3) Remission from drug use results in stress reduction. These hypotheses were examined in a study using three groups of substance user; these were a group of heroin users, a group of drinkers and a group of tobacco smokers. These subjects were interviewed at three month intervals over an eighteen month period. At each interview measures of previous weeks drug consumption and of life events from the three month period preceding interview, were collected. The study found that although the heroin and alcohol users reported more events than controls, these were mainly events caused by the drug use. These two groups were also less aware than were controls of events in their lives which were not connected with drug use. The tobacco group was, for the most part, similar to the control group in the way in which they reported events. The influence of events on drug consumption was found to operate at a perceptual level i. e. remission and relapse were influenced by the subjects perception of events rather than by the objective events per se. A model of drug use is outlined in which the impact of life events on consumption varies with the persons stage in a hypothesized cycle of remission/relapse.

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Kirby, Fiona Jillian. "Troubled by life : the experience of stress in twentieth-century Britain." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/50486/.

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In this thesis I explore how people conceptualised, explained and managed their experiences of everyday stress before the concept became ubiquitous. In doing so, I reveal some of the factors which contributed to that ultimate ubiquity. The existing historiography of stress comes mostly from a medical perspective and deals largely with post-traumatic stress. I address these limitations by specifically focusing on the everyday stress more commonly experienced by the wider population and by doing so from a more popular perspective. I focus on changes to everyday life at work and at home, which had a significant impact on the popularisation of stress, in the period from the First World War to the 1980s. Drawing on a range of sources including self-help books, diaries, oral history interviews and popular culture, I foreground continuities in the approach to treating stress and changes in ideas about causation. My analysis reveals a vocabulary of nerves and nervous disorders as precursors to stress, but also illustrates the mutability of the nerves/stress concept and how its very imprecision gave it utility. An examination of contemporary medical, sociological and governmental research demonstrates how the increasing problematisation of everyday life contributed to a growing discourse of stress. This was reflected in popular culture which revealed both the workplace and home to be potential locations of stress. I argue that this arose due to changes to these domains resulting from increased affluence, evolving gender roles and changes to people's expectations of life in the second half of the century. At its heart my thesis argues that despite material improvements in both work and home life during the period, societal changes and a growing popular discourse of stress made it far more likely that by the late twentieth century people would interpret their everyday woes as stress.

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CHANG, CHIH-CHIEH, and 張志傑. "Correlates of YIPS : Perfectionism,Life Event Stress, and Athletes’ Life Stress." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/j8k283.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible factors of YIPS, examination the athlete's perfectionist personality tendency and life Chronic stress level of predictive effect on YIPS. This study is aimed at college athletes(3 female 118 males,M age =19.83 , SD= 1.09) Sports year (M year =9.55, SD= 2.03).The study through the questionnaire, please athletes Explanation of YIPS,affected physical and psychological symptoms, Frequency and a description of the symptoms. Screened out 38 athletes Suffering from YIPS (36 baseball 2 tennis). According to the athletes, The level of perception of the perfectionism , life event stress, athletes life stress. Hierarchical logistic regression analysis, Predictive factors that may affect the YIPS. The first step input variable is is a perfectionism. The second step input variable is life event stress and athletes life stress. Research results show, The first stage perfectionism mode, Unable to effectively predict the occurrence of YIPS. The second step life event stress and athletes life stress mode, the overall correct prediction rate is 86%, Significant prediction of the occurrence of YIPS .But only the athletes’ life pressure is consistent with the research hypothesis of this study,can effectively predict the positive relationship between pressure and YIPS. Overall, This study confirmed Athletes pressure level in Sports, May be one of the factors affecting the occurrence of YIPS. Provide a new perspective to understand the occurrence of YIPS.

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