The Master's Thesis "Stress evaluation, coping and reduction" deals with studying and analyzing stress in sample of employees from Slovenské elektrárne, a.s. The theoretical part analyzes psychological overloading and pressure, stress itself, theories of stress, pathological effects of stress in society, coping with stress and reduction of stress. The practical part deals with stresors, which have an influence on respondents, their (dis)satisfaction with work and dependence between them. Conclusion contains suggestions how to deal with stress and its economic analysis.

Environment, its condition and environmental factors influence human wellbeing both directly because it has direct impact on human's physical health and indirectly because it can cause stress and therefore have negative effect on wellbeing and health. Aim of this work is to find out which environmental factors and problems can cause stress and what factors, how and why, have impact on emergence of environmental stress and coping strategies. Important factors influencing environmental stress and especially coping strategies are stressor characteristics, perceived impact, coping resources, and especially perceived capability to cope with the stressor which is strongly influenced by information and experience and by behavior of others. An individual chooses passive or active coping strategy depending on these factors. Pro-environmental behavior could be one of these active coping strategies.

Individuals exhibit different reactions to stress, both between individuals and within individuals at different time points. A person’s current emotional state is one of the primary factors that influences how they handle a stressful situation. Someone who is feelingdepressed or anxious may not cope with stress as well as when they are feeling at peace. Another factor that impacts an individual’s ability to cope with stress is being, or at least feeling, in control of the stressful situation. Uncontrollable stress can cause greater emotional disruption and negatively affect behaviour and motivation. Stress-related psychiatric disorders are common today, and research in this field is essential to help individuals improve their stress-coping abilities. In this study, we measured physiological stress responses (heart rate variability and skin conductance) while participants performed a widelyused stress induction task and a novel stress induction task that systematically varied controllability. Before the tasks, participants reported their baseline levels of depression, anxiety, and stress. Our goal was to investigate if negative emotional states predicted the physiological stress response and if stress reactivity to the well-established task was related to stress reactivity when facing an uncontrollable stressor. We hypothesised that individuals who experience more negative emotional states would exhibit a stronger physiological stress response to both tasks. The data we obtained from 61 participants indicated that participants reacted differently to the two stress tasks, but we did not observe any significant impact of depression, anxiety, or stress levels.

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Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2018-04-09T18:13:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 LUIS HENRIQUE FORTUNATO RODRIGUES.pdf: 7770422 bytes, checksum: 1cc1d6c47f40719a60a8e31e2922151c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-09T18:13:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LUIS HENRIQUE FORTUNATO RODRIGUES.pdf: 7770422 bytes, checksum: 1cc1d6c47f40719a60a8e31e2922151c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-28 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas - PUC - Campinas / The Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA) defines shelter situations as a temporary and protective measure, although it has a protective character, it may be cause of stress, due to the changes they cause in sheltered lives. This is a qualitative, transversal and descriptive study, carried out with the purpose to describe the stress and coping strategies used by sheltered children and adolescents. The Coping Motivational Theory for which coping is a regulatory action under stress, and the Lipp's perspective for child and adolescent stress, was adopted as theoretical references. Four children and eleven adolescents, aged between 8 and 17 years and 11 months old, who were in a shelter situation in a city in the interior of S?o Paulo, participated in this study. In addition to sociodemographic participants characterization, were used the Infant Stress Scale (ESI), Adolescent Stress Scale (ESA) instruments and a semi-structured interviews to identify coping strategies. The results indicated that: (a) participants shelter time is superior to the two years determined by the legislation; (b) stress levels were low for the children and adolescents in the sample, and were lower for participants who were sheltered longer; (c) the main coping strategies used by the participants were the support seeking and the opposition. Other studies are recommended, considering that the affective bond, established between children and adolescents with the closest employees, may interfere in the adaptive coping strategy, and also that the shelter can be a positive protective factor to prevent stress on sheltered children and adolescents. / O Estatuto da Crian?a e do Adolescente (ECA) define as situa??es de abrigamento como medida protetiva e tempor?ria, e ainda que tenha car?ter protetivo, pode vir a ser causadora de estresse, devido ?s mudan?as que provocam na vida dos abrigados. Esta ? uma pesquisa qualitativa, transversal e descritiva, realizada com o objetivo de descrever o estresse e as estrat?gias de enfrentamento utilizadas por crian?as e adolescentes abrigados em casas lares. Foram adotados como referenciais te?ricos, a Teoria Motivacional do Coping (TMC), para a qual o coping ? uma a??o reguladora sob estresse e a perspectiva de Lipp, para o estresse infantil e adolescente. Participaram deste estudo quatro crian?as e onze adolescentes, com idades entre 8 e 17 anos e 11 meses, que estavam em situa??o de abrigo em cidade do interior de S?o Paulo. Al?m de caracteriza??o sociodemogr?fica dos participantes, foram utilizados os instrumentos: Escala de Stress Infantil (ESI) e Escala de Stress Adolescente (ESA) e entrevistas semiestruturadas para identifica??o das estrat?gias de enfrentamento. Os resultados indicaram que: (a) o tempo de abrigamento dos participantes ? superior aos dois anos determinados pela legisla??o; (b) os n?veis de estresse foram baixos para as crian?as e adolescentes da amostra, e foram menores para os participantes abrigados h? mais tempo; (c) as principais estrat?gias de enfrentamento utilizadas pelos participantes foram a busca por apoio e a oposi??o. Recomendam-se outros estudos, considerando-se que o v?nculo afetivo estabelecido entre as crian?as e adolescentes com os funcion?rios mais pr?ximos, aparenta colaborar positivamente na estrat?gia de coping adaptativo e que o abrigamento de crian?as e adolescentes possa ser um fator protetor ao estresse.

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2018-04-11T11:54:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSANGELA MARIA NEGRI FERR?O PAGNOTA.pdf: 957081 bytes, checksum: 2050d539221e75ce71c524def1a5a6f1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-11T11:54:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ROSANGELA MARIA NEGRI FERR?O PAGNOTA.pdf: 957081 bytes, checksum: 2050d539221e75ce71c524def1a5a6f1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-28 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa ? CNPq / This research aimed to verify and analyze the levels of perceived stress and coping strategies of professionals from institutional shelters. This is an empirical, descriptive and correlational study, with an intentional sample of 45 direct and indirect contact professionals with shelters in four institutional shelters. Four instruments were used: Characterization sheet of the institutional shelter, Participant Characterization Sheet, Impact of Event Scale and COPE Brief. The data obtained were analyzed in the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Descriptive statistics were used: analysis of means, standard deviation, maximum and minimum values of coping subscales, as well as inferential: linear regression analysis, non-parametric tests (Mann-Whitney) and Spearman's correlation, considering the nature and distribution of the scores. In the analysis of the data, the distribution of participants was used to characterize the sample, through the sociodemographic variables. The results demonstrated that the perceived stress levels were higher in the participants of philanthropic institutional shelters of direct contact with shelters. The coping strategy most used was coping focused on the problem in both shelters, and the coping strategy with the highest correlation with stress was coping focused on emotion and maladaptation. The predictive variables of stress were the type of shelter, the working day, the schooling and the coping focused on the emotion and maladaptive. It was concluded that only the assessment of the health of shelter workers can generate appropriate actions and policies directed to them and detect the needs for improvement and professional training programs, contributing to the quality of care for sheltered children and adolescents. / Esta pesquisa objetivou verificar e analisar os n?veis de estresse percebido e as estrat?gias de coping dos profissionais de abrigos institucionais. Trata-se de um estudo emp?rico, descritivo e correlacional, com amostra intencional de 45 profissionais de contato direto e indireto com abrigados, em quatro abrigos institucionais. Utilizaram-se quatro instrumentos: Ficha de caracteriza??o do abrigo institucional, Ficha de Caracteriza??o do Participante, Impact of Event Scale e COPE Breve. Os dados obtidos foram analisados no software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. Para a an?lise dos resultados foi utilizada a estat?stica descritiva: an?lise das m?dias, desvio padr?o, valores m?ximo e m?nimo das pontua??es nas subescalas de coping, e tamb?m inferencial: an?lise de regress?o linear, testes n?o param?tricos (Mann-Whitney) e correla??o de Spearman, considerando a natureza e a distribui??o dos escores. Na an?lise dos dados, foi utilizada a distribui??o de participantes para caracterizar a amostra, atrav?s das vari?veis sociodemogr?ficas. Os resultados demonstraram que os n?veis de estresse percebido foram maiores nos participantes de abrigos institucionais filantr?picos de contato direto com abrigados. A estrat?gia de coping mais utilizada foi o coping focalizado no problema em ambos os abrigos e, a estrat?gia de coping com maior correla??o com o estresse foi o coping focalizado na emo??o e desadaptativo. As vari?veis preditoras de estresse foram o tipo de abrigo, a jornada de trabalho, a escolaridade e o coping focalizado na emo??o e desadaptativo. Conclui-se que somente a avalia??o da sa?de dos profissionais de abrigos, poder? gerar a??es e pol?ticas adequadas a ela dirigidas e detectar as necessidades de aprimoramento e programas de capacita??o profissional, contribuindo na qualidade da assist?ncia ?s crian?as e adolescentes abrigados.

<p>Further findings of the current study are: there are significant differences in stress based on employees&rsquo / gender and tenure, a significant difference in burnout with regards to gender and employment type, and significant differences between emotional labour based on gender and tenure. However, no significant difference was found between burnout and tenure, nor was there a significant difference between emotional labour and employment type. Recommendations are made to alleviate the effects of stress on call centre employees which in turn, will minimise the effects of burnout and emotional labour. Recommendations included the development of wellness programmes, stress management programmes, coping programmes and effective communications as a mean to shape employee perceptions regarding their interpretation of organisational demands, threats or opportunities and to enhance call centre employees&rsquo / performance within their work.</p>

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of gender, acculturative stress, coping skills, cultural distance, and perceived social support in predicting college adjustment scores of international students who attend universities in Ankara. The sample of the study consisted of 170 (135 males and 35 females) volunteered international students from one private and four state universities in Ankara. A Personal Data Sheet developed by the researcher, Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (Baker &amp / Siryk, 1984), Acculturative Stress Scale for International Students (Sandhu &amp / Asrabadi, 1994), Brief COPE (Carver, 1997), Cultural Distance Scale (Bekta

Psichinę sveikatą sudaro 2 poliai: negatyvus ir pozityvus. Negatyvi psichinė sveikata yra suprantama kaip psichologinis distresas ir psichikos sutrikimai, o pozityvios psichinės sveikatos ištekliais yra laikoma vidinė darna, savigarba ir gebėjimas tinkamai įveikti stresines situacijas. Tyrimo tikslas yra išanalizuoti profesionalios karo tarnybos (PKT) karių psichinės sveiktos ir jos išteklių ypatumus. Tyrimo metu buvo siekiama patikrinti 3 hipotezes: 1) PKT kariai turintys aukštesnę vidinę darną ir aukštesnę savigarbą pasižymi mažesniu psichologiniu distresu ir mažesniu nerimastingumu.2) PKT karių psichologinį distresą ir nerimastingumą įtakoja vidinės darnos ir savigarbos stiprumas. 3) PKT karių streso įveikų naudojimas priklauso nuo vidinės darnos ir savigarbos lygio. Tyrime dalyvavo 193 profesinės karo tarnybos karių iš Vilniaus m. ir Jonavos raj. dalinių. Didžiausią dalį tiriamųjų (90,2%, t.y. 174 karių) sudarė vyrai. PKT karių psichologinis distresas buvo matuojamas taikant D. Goldberg (2001) General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28), nerimas ir nerimastingumas tirtas N.S. Endler, J.M. Edwards, R. Vitelli (1991) Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales (EMAS) klausimynu. Pozityvi PKT karių psichinė sveikata tirta naudojant A. Antonovsky (1995) vidinės darnos trumpą klausimyno variantą ir M. Rosenberg (1965) savigarbos klausimyną. PKT karių taikomų streso įveikų stilių ypatumai matuojami naudojant Ž. Grakausko ir G. Valicko (2006) lietuvišką streso įveikų vertinimo metodiką... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The mental health combines two poles: negative and positive. Negative mental health is understood as psychological distress and mental disorder while positive mental health is sense of coherence, self-esteem and ability to cope with stressful situations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the mental health and its issues of military personnel. Three hypotheses are discussed: 1) Military personnel having better sense of coherence and more self-esteem show less psychological distress and are less trait anxiety. 2) Psychological distress and trait anxiety are impacted by the strength of sense of coherence and the strength of self-esteem of military personnel. 3) The way how military personnel use stress coping manners depends both on sense of coherence and self-esteem. 193 soldiers from Vilnius and the region Jonava were tested. Most of them were male (90,2%, it means 174 soldiers). The distress of military personnel was tested using D. Goldberg‘s (2001) The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28), state anxiety and trait anxiety with N.S. Endler‘s, J.M. Edward‘s, R. Vitelli‘s (1991) Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales (EMAS) questionnaire. The positive mental health was investigated using the short form of the sense of coherence questionnaire created by A. Antonovsky (1995) and the questionnaire of self-esteem composed by M. Rosenberg (1965). The Lithuanian version of the test created by Ž. Grakauskas and G. Valickas (2006) was used to measure the styles of stress coping... [to full text]