Perceived stress and stress-related illness as symptoms of burnout have increased in adolescents. The aim of the present study was to investigate if mindfulness, global- and competence-based self-esteem are potential predictors for perceived stress and symptoms of burnout in adolescents. 143 upper secondary students participated in the study. The results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that higher levels of mindfulness and global-self-esteem were associated with decreased levels of perceived stress and symptoms of burnout. Competence-based self-esteem was only trend-significant associated with symptoms of burnout. Mediation analysis revealed that global self-esteem was a fully mediator for the relationship between competence-based self-esteem and perceived stress. The results were discussed in terms of the importance of individual factors, such as, mindfulness and self-esteem to predict perceived stress and symptoms of burnout.

<p>Syftet med mitt arbete är att få en fördjupad insikt i en lärares arbete, och få kunskap om hur stress och utbrändhet kan påverka arbetet som lärare. För att få denna förståelse har jag intervjuat en manlig lärare, Ove. Han har arbetat som lärare i fyrtio år. Genom att använda mig utav livsberättelsemetoden har jag fått tagit del av hans erfarenheter. I hans berättelse framkommer det att stress var inledningsvis något som var positivt för hans arbete. Han berättar att det är lätt att brinna för sitt arbete och lägga ner all sin tid och energi för det man tycker är roligt och intressant. Genom berättelsen får man ta del av hur den positiva stressen vänder, och Ove blir sjukskriven. Genom berättelsen framkommer Oves frustration över hur lärarrollen har förändrats genom åren. Det framkommer att det finns många faktorer som är avgörande hur en lärare ska fördela sin tid. Exempel på sådana faktorer är hur samhället och hur lärarrollen har förändrats genom åren.</p> / <p>The purpose with my work is to get a deeper insight into a teacher's job, and gain insight into how stress and burnout can affect the work as a teacher. To obtain this understanding, I interviewed a male teacher, Ove. He has worked as a teacher for forty years. The method I have used is a personal life story around this person. In his story it becomes clear that stress was initially something that was positive for his work. He says that it is easy to burn for their work and spend all their time and energy for what we think is fun and interesting. Through the story may take some of the positive stress turns, and Ove become sick. Through the story emerges Oves frustration with how the teacher's role has changed over the years. It is found that there are many factors that determine how a teacher should allocate their time. Examples of these factors is how society and how the teacher's role has changed over the years.</p>

Syftet med mitt arbete är att få en fördjupad insikt i en lärares arbete, och få kunskap om hur stress och utbrändhet kan påverka arbetet som lärare. För att få denna förståelse har jag intervjuat en manlig lärare, Ove. Han har arbetat som lärare i fyrtio år. Genom att använda mig utav livsberättelsemetoden har jag fått tagit del av hans erfarenheter. I hans berättelse framkommer det att stress var inledningsvis något som var positivt för hans arbete. Han berättar att det är lätt att brinna för sitt arbete och lägga ner all sin tid och energi för det man tycker är roligt och intressant. Genom berättelsen får man ta del av hur den positiva stressen vänder, och Ove blir sjukskriven. Genom berättelsen framkommer Oves frustration över hur lärarrollen har förändrats genom åren. Det framkommer att det finns många faktorer som är avgörande hur en lärare ska fördela sin tid. Exempel på sådana faktorer är hur samhället och hur lärarrollen har förändrats genom åren. / The purpose with my work is to get a deeper insight into a teacher's job, and gain insight into how stress and burnout can affect the work as a teacher. To obtain this understanding, I interviewed a male teacher, Ove. He has worked as a teacher for forty years. The method I have used is a personal life story around this person. In his story it becomes clear that stress was initially something that was positive for his work. He says that it is easy to burn for their work and spend all their time and energy for what we think is fun and interesting. Through the story may take some of the positive stress turns, and Ove become sick. Through the story emerges Oves frustration with how the teacher's role has changed over the years. It is found that there are many factors that determine how a teacher should allocate their time. Examples of these factors is how society and how the teacher's role has changed over the years.

While a great deal of theoretical work affirms the importance of spirituality in hospice care, the manner in which organizational members communicate about spirituality in hospice organizations, and most other health care organizations, remains under-explored and under-theorized. The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, this dissertation seeks to understand how hospice members talk about spirituality with one another and with care recipients. Second, this dissertation explores the antecedents and consequences of hospice members' communication strategies. To explore these issues, an ethnographic study was conducted in two branches of a mid-sized hospice. Over 200 hours of participant observation and 42 interviews were completed. Results showed that organizational discourse about spirituality was strategically ambiguous in response to multiple internal and external demands. Strategically ambiguous communication was successful in allowing for a wide range of actions and interpretations; however, it was also problematic in that it served as a source of discomfort and disconnection for some organizational members. Further, results demonstrated that communication about spirituality in interactions between care providers and care recipients was influenced by both organizational discourse and personal understandings of spirituality. Organizational and professional discourse and personal understandings created dialectical tensions between leading and following in care provider-care recipient interactions. Further analysis demonstrated five different strategies for managing the leading-following dialectic. Finally, results suggested that organizational discourses affected the personal identity and outcomes experienced by hospice workers. The preferred organizational identity of the "Gracious Servant" required hospice workers to perform spiritual labor which increased the care providers' propensity to experience stress and burnout. In total, these results demonstrate the importance of examining spirituality from an ecological perspective that considers community, organizational, and interpersonal discourse about spirituality.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1991.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1991.

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY in the Faculty ofArts at the University of Zululand, 1999. / Literature repeatedly indicates that stress and burnout constitute a serious problem in the police profession. This study endeavours to identify and describe the stress experiences of community police personnel and in so doing, to gain a deeper and clearer insight into the complex process of stress and burnout in a presently fast changing South African safety and security milieu. A biographical questionnaire as well as a semi-structured questionnaire was used in this research study, which followed a qualitative route. In-depth interviews were held with seven community police officers in the Port Elizabeth region, Eastern Cape. Six of these police officers were from urban areas and one was from a rural area. Content analysis revealed that various stressors, stress reactions, coping mechanisms and support sources as well as various degrees of self-esteem and burnout were manifested. The distinction and relationship between burnout and stress was also considered. In addition, emphasis was placed on biographical variables that play a role in the manifestation of stress among policemen. Each police officer's individual degree of stress experienced was related to a unique process in terms of the identified variables. An integrated description on their stress experiences was also presented in order to show both their uniqueness and similarities. Community policing as a general field of application is sorely under-researched in South Africa. Prior to the present study, no studies had been undertaken to specifically describe the stress process of police personnel in their new role as community policing officers. It has become clear that further research in this regard is required to bring about a deeper understanding of the stress experiences of community police personnel. A greater premium should be placed on all the persons involved in this area of research to address the problem of stress among the police profession and thus find solutions. The objective being to secure a greater safety for future generations and provide more support to the police.

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What does the prevalence of stress and burnout in community-based work reveal about the impacts of welfare state withdrawal? Drawing on the experiences of frontline community organizers in Toronto, this research argues that welfare state withdrawal is subsidized by a ‘Currency of Caring’ whereby frontline community organizers are expected to fill gaps in the social safety net, working to a point of burnout if necessary, because they care. This research investigates how funders operating within this context can promote health and wellness in community-based work. Broadly, research findings provide insights into how neoliberalism and welfare state withdrawal shape frontline community work in ways that exacerbate stress and burnout, and impede systemic change efforts. In addition, research findings describe the limitations and possibilities for funders to be allies in collective change efforts by being invested in the health and wellness of frontline community organizers.

What does the prevalence of stress and burnout in community-based work reveal about the impacts of welfare state withdrawal? Drawing on the experiences of frontline community organizers in Toronto, this research argues that welfare state withdrawal is subsidized by a ‘Currency of Caring’ whereby frontline community organizers are expected to fill gaps in the social safety net, working to a point of burnout if necessary, because they care. This research investigates how funders operating within this context can promote health and wellness in community-based work. Broadly, research findings provide insights into how neoliberalism and welfare state withdrawal shape frontline community work in ways that exacerbate stress and burnout, and impede systemic change efforts. In addition, research findings describe the limitations and possibilities for funders to be allies in collective change efforts by being invested in the health and wellness of frontline community organizers.