Thesis advisor: David L. Blustein / This study explored the relationship between community college students' working lives and student engagement. Student engagement has been used as a proxy for student persistence based on its strong association with student persistence and its powerful negative association with school drop-out. Work has been studied extensively as related to student engagement. The existing literature on student engagement and work is contradictory and focuses almost exclusively on adolescent students (i.e., Greenberger & Steinberg, 1986; Mortimer et al., 2002) or four-year college students (i.e., Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991; 2005), leaving a notable gap in the community college student literature. Most community college students work full time while attending school, yet little is known about how students' work lives relate to their student engagement. Utilizing Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Framework (1979), which emphasizes the potential for positive and reciprocal relationships between contexts such as work and school, the present study sought to redress the gap in the literature through exploring how Work Intensity, Gender and Work Quality relate to Student Engagement. Students filled out the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) and a Work Quality survey. Using a sample of (277) students, the results of the data analyses revealed the following findings: (1) students who worked more intense hours did not differ significantly in their student engagement than their peers who worked less intense hours; (2) students who worked in intrinsically rewarding jobs were more engaged in school; (3) contrary to predicted, students who worked in higher stress jobs were more engaged in school and (4) work intensity moderated the relationship between extrinsic rewards at work and student effort. These findings add to the literature on community college student engagement as they are somewhat surprising and differ from what we know about student engagement among adolescent and traditional four-year college populations. Namely, community college students may demonstrate a unique ability to balance their school and work lives despite long hours and at times stressful working conditions. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology.

This thesis considers how work has changed in post-industrial society. It shows that while insecure or stressful work can be reliably linked with poor health, individual outcomes depend upon a range of micro- and macro-level moderators. Bad jobs are invariably harmful, but context matters. It begins by charting the shift in advanced economic nations from industry and agriculture to service sector and knowledge-based employment. Most accounts of post-industrialisation share common flaws. Namely, the tendency for technological determinism; the depiction of discontinuous, all-encompassing social transformation; and the dislocation from individual experience. Such failings, however, do not negate the micro-level impact of these changes. This thesis focuses on two: job insecurity and work intensity. Recent decades have witnessed a destandardisation of employment relations and an intensification of working conditions. These changes have important consequences for well-being, whether or not they collectively constitute a new form of society. The methodological theme is one of moderation. Successive analytical chapters show how the consequences of insecure or stressful work depends upon (a) family arrangements, (b) economic climate, (c) labour market policies, (d) job resources and (e) national characteristics such as culture or trade union density. The analyses combine European survey data and contextual information using a range of quantitative methods, including multilevel modelling, structural equation modelling and latent class analysis. While the empirical chapters contribute to their respective literatures, they also feed into broader arguments regarding the synthesis of micro- and macro-level perspectives. Work invariably impacts upon health, but a simultaneity of moderating influences results in a diversity of outcomes. These findings underline the contextual sensitivity of work-related policy.

Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove Dept. of Social and Clinical Pharmacy Author: Kristýna Tumová, DiS. Tutor: PhDr. Eva Švarcová, Ph.D. Thesis: Psychosocial workload of Pharmacists II. Background: My work is focused on pharmacy professionals in terms of their daily mental stress. Aim of study: To characterize the profession of a pharmacist from a historical perspective, their role in society, and the legislative definitions. Describe concepts related to mental health and mental hygiene focusing on stress, fatigue, and burnout. In the practical part, analyse the identified subjective feelings of fatigue of pharmacists and pharmaceutical assistants while comparing these two interviewed groups and evaluating the impact of the pharmacy location (city, village). Methods: Questionnaire survey through the Subjective Symptoms of Fatigue (SSF) questionnaire and the scale of Mental Fatigue. Respondents - pharmacists and pharmaceutical assistants in the same proportion of representation concerning the expertise and location of the pharmacy. A total of 200 respondents, 100 respondents from villages and 100 from cities. Each of the 100 respondents is represented by 50 pharmacists and 50 pharmaceutical assistants. Processing of results - Microsoft Excel program....

Charles University, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy Candidate Barbora Čavajdová Consultant PhDr. Eva Švarcová, Ph.D. Thesis Title Psychosocial Work Burden of Pharmacists I. Introduction: Practicing a pharmacy as a pharmacist can cause stress and strain. The main task is to dispense medicines, where a lot of attention and responsibility is needed. With the induced stress and the action of stressors, there are feelings of fatigue, which disappear after rest. Working conditions are an important factor that affect the overall mental and physical condition of the pharmacist. Objective: The aim of the work was to evaluate the degree of fatigue of pharmacists by analyzing working conditions and based on the results to recommend proposals for improving health and working conditions. Methods: The method was based on a questionnaire survey, where pharmacists responded to the degree of fatigue in the area of subjective feelings of fatigue, vision problems and problems associated with the musculoskeletal system. Questionnaires were filled in by pharmacists from chain and independent pharmacies, and the results were then compared. Out of 200 questionnaires, 160 fully completed questions were returned to me and the results were evaluated in Microsoft...

Charles University, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy Candidate Barbora Čavajdová Consultant PhDr. Eva Švarcová, Ph.D. Thesis Title Pharmacists' health aspects of stress Introduction: Pharmacists working in pharmacies may be subject to some strain and stress. The main task of this profession is the dispensing of medicines when you need to be very attentive and responsible. With the action of stressors and the consequent stress there are manifestations of fatigue which disappear with rest. Working conditions are an important factor that affect the overall mental and physical condition of the pharmacist. Objective: The aim of the thesis was to evaluate the degree of fatigue of pharmacists by analysing working conditions and based on the results to recommend proposals for improving health and working conditions in pharmacies. Methods: The method was based on a questionnaire survey, where pharmacists responded to the degree of fatigue in the area of subjective feelings of fatigue, vision problems and problems associated with the musculoskeletal system. Questionnaires were filled in by pharmacists from chain (Benu and Dr.Max) and other pharmacies, then the results were compared. Out of 200 questionnaires, 160 fully completed questions were...

The diploma thesis deals with the impact of dementia syndrome in clients of social field service on workers in direct care. The thesis connects two theoretical levels, which are closely related to the topic. This is primarily the level of the disease itself with dementia syndrome and the circumstances associated with caring for a sick person. The second level deals with the topic of managing a team of workers in direct care, with a focus on field social services. The research in the sequential variant made it possible to emphasize the moments that are specific in the care of clients with dementia syndrome in the home environment. The intention was to name the stress moments that come with working with a given target group in the home environment. At the core of the pressures mentioned by the respondents, the stress resulting from the unpredictability of the situation was found as a common denominator. It is unpredictability, given the client's illness, in the conditions of the home environment, in which the client is used to making his own decisions, despite the worsened cognition. At the next level is the stress resulting from unclear responsibility for the content of the service. The employee must be able to flexibly move from a role that is more managerial to a role where the service is managed...