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Stress, coping, and hope

Hope is discussed in many literatures and from many perspectives. In this essay hope is discussed from the vantage of psychology and stress and coping theory. Hope and psychological stress share a number of formal properties: both are contextual,…

Tags: 2010, Adaptation, Attitude To Health, Backlog, Folkman S, Humans, Journal Article, Neoplasms/psychology, Psycho-Oncology, Psychological, Psychological/psychology, Stress, Uncertainty

Neurobiological mechanisms in major depressive disorder

Beta-endorphin mediates behavioral despair and the effect of ethanol on the tail suspension test in mice.

Background: The opioid peptide beta-endorphin (beta-E) is synthesized and released in response to stressful stimuli as well as acute alcohol administration. The release of beta-E following exposure to an inescapable aversive situation may mediate…

Coping with Dravet syndrome: parental experiences with a catastrophic epilepsy

The aim of this study was to investigate how parents cope with and care for a child with Dravet syndrome, a severe myoclonic epilepsy with three distinct stages. Twenty-four parents of children with Dravet syndrome participated in a semi-structured…

Perceived stress in HIV-infected individuals: Physiological and psychological correlates.

The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation of perceived stress with selected physiological and psychological factors in an HIV-infected, predominantly African American population and to assess the multivariable effects on perceived…

Coping with interpersonal stress: role of big five traits

Seventy-one couples living in a stepfamily context reported interpersonal family stressors and related coping strategies daily for 1 week in a daily process study. The role of personality and of the stressful context in each of the spouse's coping…

Sense of coherence: a relevant resource in the coping process of mothers of deaf and hard-of-hearing children?

This study examined the importance of reported sense of coherence (Antonovsky, 1987) in mothers of children with hearing impairment. Sense of coherence was explored as a factor in relation to the experience of stress and subjective life satisfaction…

Tags: 2004, Adaptation, Analysis of Variance, Backlog, Deafness/psychology, Female, Hintermair M, Humans, Journal Article, Journal Of Deaf Studies And Deaf Education, Models, Mothers/psychology, Psychological, Psychological/psychology, Questionnaires, Stress, Theoretical

Stress levels experienced by the parents of enterally fed children

BACKGROUND: The stress levels of parents of children with chronic illness/disability who were also involved in an enteral feeding programme were examined and compared to the stress levels of parents of healthy children and parents of children with…

Elderly psychiatric patient status and caregiver perceptions as predictors of caregiver burden

Causal links between stressful events, coping style, and adolescent symptomatology

In a longitudinal study, the causal links between different types of stressors, coping styles and adolescent symptomatology were investigated. A total of 94 adolescents and their mothers participated in three annual assessments of critical life…

Tags: 2000, Adaptation, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior/psychology, Backlog, Female, Follow-up Studies, Humans, Journal Article, Journal Of Adolescence, Life Change Events, Male, Prospective Studies, Psychological, Psychological/psychology, Seiffge-Krenke I, Stress

Evolution of parental stress and coping processes: a framework for critical care practice

Crisis theory, stress and coping theory, and research on parental stress and coping during pediatric critical care experiences are integrated into a conceptual framework for understanding, assessing, and ultimately intervening to reduce parental…

Patterns of children's coping with life stress: implications for clinicians

In a study of children's patterns of coping with daily stressors, boys and girls 9-17 years old were asked to complete a coping checklist in response to one of four types of stressors--school, parents/family, siblings, or peer/interpersonal. Patterns…

Tags: 2000, Adaptation, Adolescent, Backlog, Child, Danovsky M, Defense Mechanisms, Donaldson D, Female, Humans, Journal Article, Male, Personality Inventory, Prinstein MJ, Psychological, Psychological/psychology, Spirito A, Stress, The American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry

Towards clarification of convergent concepts: sense of coherence, will to meaning, locus of control, learned helplessness and hardiness

The multidisciplinary field of stress and stress-related health outcomes has generated theoretical and practical knowledge which is of interest to nurses. Theoretical developments which have assumed a prominent role in the study of stress, health and…

Tags: 1993, Attitude, Backlog, Freedom, Health, Helplessness, Humans, Internal-External Control, Journal Article, Journal Of Advanced Nursing, Learned, Models, Nursing, Philosophy, Psychological, Psychological/psychology, Self Concept, Stress, Sullivan GC

A community survey of children with severe intellectual disability and their families: psychological adjustment, carer distress and the effect of respite care

The present paper describes a cross-sectional study of the psychosocial adjustment of 143 children with severe disability and their families identified from a regional case register for children with special needs. Thirty-eight per cent of the…

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