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<p>In recent years more and more people have been sick-listed due to stress and it has happened to more women than men. The purpose of this paper is to see if recoveringfrom stress related states of ill-health can be promoted through participation in a stress management course. Five women who were or had been sick-listed and had participated in the life management course were interviewed. The results show that the course was an important forum for expressing emotions. The participants were more positive about the future after than before they entered the course. The participants believed that they had developed new attitudes towards life and that they had become more conscious about their coping strategies. They were more aware of the need of balance in life but that would sometimes interfere with their need of supporting others. The women made no big changes in their habits but the course seems to have taught them how to relax, a skill they used in different ways in their everyday lives.</p>

Half-blood Bonsmara steers were evaluated for temperament during stressful situations to discover the relationships between behavioral stress responses, growth, carcass characteristics and tenderness. Two experiments were conducted to evaluate behavioral stress responses at different stages in the U.S. beef production system with growth, carcass characteristics and tenderness. The first experiment evaluated stress responses at both time of weaning and at the beginning of the feedlot period on half-blood Bonsmara X Beefmaster steers. Steers (n=156) were weaned and paired to destinations of either Uvalde or Overton for winter grazing. At weaning cattle were weighed, and temperament measurements were recorded. After grazing winter pastures, cattle entered the feedlot and were measured for temperament, weight, and condition and frame scores. Cattle were harvested in two groups; each group was selected for harvest when they reached a backfat of approximately 7 mm. Backfat endpoints were determined by visual assessment and ultrasound. Carcass data were recorded approximately 36 hrs post-mortem, and 2.5cm steaks were removed from the 13th rib for Warner-Bratzler shear force determination. The second experiment involved Bonsmara X Angus (n=207) steers grazed on wheat pasture and fed at Cattletown feedlot near Hereford, TX. The steers were evaluated near the beginning and end of the finishing phase for performance and temperament. They were harvested in two groups; each group was selected for harvest when they reached approximately 7 mm of backfat as determined by visual assessment and ultrasound. In experiments 1 and 2, behavioral or temperament measures and hormonal responses were related to each other. It appeared as cattle become acclimated to the production system, temperament measures lose their predictive ability. In Experiment 1, weaning exit velocity appeared to be more related to economically important traits such as ADG (r = -0.26), ribeye area (r = -0.37), and Warner Bratzler shear force (r = 0.27), although beginning feedlot exit velocity was associated with feedlot weights (r = -0.30). In Experiment 2, end feedlot measurements tended to be more associated with feedlot weight (r = -0.20), but there did not seem to be any high relationships with carcass characteristics and tenderness.

In recent years more and more people have been sick-listed due to stress and it has happened to more women than men. The purpose of this paper is to see if recoveringfrom stress related states of ill-health can be promoted through participation in a stress management course. Five women who were or had been sick-listed and had participated in the life management course were interviewed. The results show that the course was an important forum for expressing emotions. The participants were more positive about the future after than before they entered the course. The participants believed that they had developed new attitudes towards life and that they had become more conscious about their coping strategies. They were more aware of the need of balance in life but that would sometimes interfere with their need of supporting others. The women made no big changes in their habits but the course seems to have taught them how to relax, a skill they used in different ways in their everyday lives.

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Stress is something that has increased in recent decades among adolescents. Several reports indicate that young people today are more stressed because of the many demands they wear. They should be good in school, achievement expectations, get an education or job, make choices and think about their future. The purpose of our essay is that we want to explore and gain an understanding of how young people in the third grade in high school looks to stress. To conduct this study, we used a qualitative approach, by doing interviews with 10 high school students attending third grade at Västerviks gymnasium. The result we got out of the interviews was that young people experience stress differently, depending on their different as individuals. We found that there are different causes of stress, such as school, media, friends, demands from various quarters and choosing education. The interviews showed that some kind of stress was possible to handle for the adolescents, for instance by making schedule. Some stress from society was, on the other hand, more difficult to avoid.