...During times of our lives we deal with stress. For instance, we stress about things from home, financial situations, and jobs as well. I took two self-assessments based on How vulnerable am I to stress and Stressful events in my life. Based off the two assessments, it showed how stressed I was and couldn’t handle it. I know in dealt with stress in the past and also dealing with it right now. I try to find many ways with coping with my stress by exercising or doing other things to reduce the excessive tension. The term stress is the response of individuals to stressors. Stressors are events that threaten individuals and tax their coping abilities. My coping abilities were threaten twice over a year ago. For Instance, I had major damages to my vehicle where I couldn’t drive for almost 2 months. I didn’t cope with it very well because the only thing was through my mind how I was going to get back and forth to work and school. On a daily, I started to concern myself more on how I was going to get the money to get the car fixed. By doing that made things worst. The second stressor was being unemployed for 6 months. At times I did well with it and other times I didn’t cope with it well. I wasn’t worried because I thought I could always go back to my previous job in 3 months and was fine financially. Then I found out we were moving once again and that to concern to me because my mom didn’t have enough to handle the moving by herself. I stressed because, I dislike seeing my mom struggle...
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...The Impact of Stress on a Developing Child Rowena G. Henderson Liberty University References Frances S. Chen, Julian Schmitz, Gregor Domes, Brunna Tuschen-Caffier, Markus Heinrichs, Effects of acute social stress on emotion processing in children, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Volume 40, February 2014, Pages 91-95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.11.003. Summary- This article explores the question of how stress impacts a child’s emotional development. The study investigated the effect of stress on children’s processing of facial expressions of emotion. The boys who went through the stress procedure were more likely to categorize angry faces as fear versus the boys who were tested with a controlled condition. The conclusion was that decreased sensitivity to anger cues following a stressful experience could represent a coping mechanism. And an increased level of sensitivity to fear cues could represent a child’s own emotional state or an interpretation of another’s emotional state. Strengths and Weaknesses- The study does a great job of breaking down each step and describing the different parts of the study. The weakness of the study is not going into detail how or why the participants were chosen. It does not seem like there was a lot of variety in the demographics of the participants. Evaluation- I think it was a good study but it didn’t...
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...American Psychological Association, Inc. 0O22-O663/01/S5.OO DOI: 10.1037//0022-0663.93.1.55 Academic Self-Efficacy and First-Year College Student Performance and Adjustment Martin M. Chemers, Li-tze Hu, and Ben F. Garcia University of California, Santa Cruz A longitudinal study of lst-year university student adjustment examined the effects of academic self-efficacy and optimism on students' academic performance, stress, health, and commitment to remain in school. Predictor variables (high school grade-point average, academic self-efficacy, and optimism) and moderator variables (academic expectations and self-perceived coping ability) were measured at the end of the first academic quarter and were related to classroom performance, personal adjustment, stress, and health, measured at the end of the school year. Academic self-efficacy and optimism were strongly related to performance and adjustment, both directly on academic performance and indirectly through expectations and coping perceptions (challenge-threat evaluations) on classroom performance, stress, health, and overall satisfaction and commitment to remain in school. Observed relationships corresponded closely to the hypothesized model. Change can be unsettling. The transition from high school to college can place significant demands on young adults (Tinto, 1982,1993). College life can be demanding and stressful for a new student (Noel, Levitz, & Saluri, 1985) and requires higher levels of independence,...
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...I. Situation Analysis This case is about a problem identification and solution of the Millennium Insurance Company. It’s a mid-sized insurance company with 10,000 employees and about 1.8 million customers. It offers various lines of insurance. For example: life, property and casualty and health. The biggest ratio of the revenue is generated by selling insurances and as well from a substantial mortgage business. The company is performing well, but there some problems in the IT-department. Many employees in the line business divisions as well as lower-level analysts have bought and used various PC’s and software. This happened without support of the IT department. When end-users contacted the IT-department they were unconfident, because they didn’t get help of them. The staff of the IT-department were focused on mainframe computing and operational systems and not about the PC’s and the software’s. This led to a high amount of complaints of the line business units about the unresponsiveness and the incompetence of the IT-department. So the senior vice president ‘John Cheng’ wanted to change this situation. He and senior managers developed a one year plan. This plan is structured in a three step approach: PC Research and Development Knowledge Management End User Education and Support The focus in this essay is on the end-user education and support strategy. The key manager is Elise Smart. She is 32 years old and was the senior manager in the development group of the IT...
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...Change and Stress Management References: Croasdell, D., Kuechler, B., & Wawdo, S. (2013). EXAMINING RESISTANCE TO INFORMATION SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION. Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 15(3), 3-24. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.uwrf.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1475042160?accountid=9576 Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2013). Human Resource Policies and Practices. Organizational Behavior (15th ed., pp. 542-568). Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, Inc.. Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2013). Organizational Change and Stress Management. Organizational Behavior (15th ed., pp. 576-608). Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, Inc.. Synthesis of readings for the week: HR policies and practices really can have a significant impact on the organization’s effectiveness. The selection process begins by people filling out applications and some companies even start with background checks. This is the rough beginning and anyone who doesn’t qualify is automatically ruled out. Next is substantive selection where anyone who made it through the first round is subject to written tests and interviews to further see if they qualify. If you make it through this round you are among the best qualified and all you need to do is make it through contingent selection, which is basically drug test and background checks, and then you are offered the position. HR is also responsible for training and performance evaluations. Training...
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...Health & Clinical Psychology Healthy Living Stress Dysfunctional Behaviour Disorders [pic] [pic] [pic] Contents • Objectives for the Health and Clinical Psychology module 6 • What is Health Psychology? Careers in Health Psychology 7 • Unit G543: Health and Clinical Psychology 8 • Exemplar exam paper 9 PART A – INFORMATION TO HELP EVALUATE STUDIES • Evaluation sheet for the theories/studies of Health Psychology 10 • Guide for answering part A & part B exam questions 11 PART B – HEALTHY LIVING • Introduction to Healthy Living 14 • Theories of Health Belief 17 • Compliance with a Medical Regime for Asthma (Becker 1978) 18 • Internal versus External Locus of Control (Rotter 1966) 21 • Analysis of Self-Efficacy Theory of Behavioural Change (Bandura and Adams 1977) 23 • Summary of the health belief theories 26 • Comprehension questions for theories of health belief 27 • Part A exam question 28 • Part B exam question 29 • Evaluation sheet of health belief theories/studies 30 Introduction to Health Promotion 31 • Theories of Health Promotion • Chip pan fire prevention (Cowpe 1983) 32 • Legislation-Bicycle helmet laws and educational campaigns (Dannenberg et al. 1993) 34 • Effects of Fear arousal (Janis & Feshbeck 1953) 37 • Summary of the health...
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...Effect of Job Stress and Job Satisfaction on Performance: An Empirical Study Rashmi Shahu, S.V. Gole Department of Management Technology RKN Engineering College Nagpur, India (rashmishahu@yahoo.co.uk) (golesv@rknec.edu) Volume 2, Number 3 September 2008, pp. 237-246 Occupational stress is commonly acknowledged to be a critical issue for managers of private manufacturing companies. This study attempts to fill part of this void in literature by examining the relationship between job stress, job satisfaction and performance among 100 managers of private manufacturing firms. The study’s findings suggest that higher stress levels are related to lower performance whereas higher job satisfaction indicates higher performance. The main objective was to see if there was any relationship between job performance, job satisfaction and job stress & to preface model for the same. The research was assessed by using various instruments. Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Job Stress, Job Manufacturing Firms, Occupational Stress Index Performance, Private 1. Introduction 1.1 Job Performance in Relation to Job Satisfaction In the field of Industrial / Organizational psychology, one of the most researched areas is the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance (Judge, Thoresen, Bono, & Patton, 2001). Landy (1989) described this relationship as the “Holy Grail” of Industrial psychology. Research linking job performance with satisfaction and other attitudes has been studied since...
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...Occupational Stress and How to Deal with It Heather L. DuSoleil English 333 December 12, 2012 Executive Summary Occupational Stress is a substantial problem to workers and employees all over the world. Occupational stress is considered an “epidemic” and it is costing employers over $200 billion dollars a year. With that being said, there is a lot that bosses and managers should be educating not only themselves about, but also their employees about. This proposal is to give people the tools that they need to help them solve the problem of occupational stress. Keywords: Stress, Occupational Stress, Epidemic, Tips, Acute Distress, Acute Episodic Distress, Chronic Distress, Eustress, and Distress. Statement of Need Teaching employees how to deal with occupational stress will help reduce costs to employers, reduce work accidents, and make employees and workplaces a lot healthier and safer. When people are not stressed their environment is a much less hostile place. That makes customers more at ease and co-workers get along much better. Employers spend more than $200 billion dollars a year on absenteeism, accidents, sickness, and burnt out employees. That number can be greatly reduced by making sure that employees have many ways of dispelling occupational stress both at work and in their personal lives. By implementing a plan to reduce occupational stress and the effects it has on employees the business world will...
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...Analyze combat and operational stress reactions (COSRs) Combat Stress Controlling combat stress is often the deciding factor between victory and defeat in all forms of human conflict. Stressors are a fact of combat, and you and your Soldiers will face them. Controlled combat stress can call forth stress reactions of loyalty, selflessness, and heroism. Conversely, uncontrolled combat stress causes erratic or harmful behavior that disrupts or interferes with the accomplishment of a unit’s mission. Any uncontrolled combat stress can impair mission performance and may bring disgrace, disaster, and defeat. The art of war aims to impose so much stress on enemy soldiers that they lose their will to fight. Both sides try to do this and at times accept severe stress themselves in order to inflict greater stress on the enemy. To win, you must control combat stress. The word “control” is better than the word “manage” to emphasize the active steps that leaders, supporting personnel, and individual Soldiers must take to keep stress within an acceptable range. This does not mean that control and management are mutually exclusive terms. Management is, by definition, the exercise of control. Within common usage, however, and especially within Army usage, management has the connotation of being a somewhat detached, number–driven, higher echelon process rather than a direct, inspirational, leadership process. Stress is the body’s and mind’s process for dealing with uncertain change...
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...Plants are exposed to number of environmental factors. Complex arrays of abiotic and biotic factors provide congenial conditions for plant growth and development. Slight change in these factors may cause stress condition. Abiotic stress is one of the most important factors affecting growth; this may results in severe loss of crop production. Exposure of plants to stress condition induces an interruption in plant metabolism at physiological costs (Bolton 2009; Massad et al., 2012). It leads reduction in fitness and eventually productivity (Shao et al., 2008). Plants perceive stress signals in well coordinated and efficient manner. From the perception of the stimulus (stress) to the final response in cells, plants use various signaling pathways....
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...The Impact of Stress on a Developing Child Rae Ann Parsons Liberty University References Dubois-Comtois, K., Moss, E., Cyr, C., & Pascuzzo, K. (2013). Behavior problems in middle childhood: The predictive role of maternal distress, child attachment, and mother-child interactions. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 41(8), 1311-1324. http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=b2d75575-0df6-4400-8735-241e5dd64815%40sessionmgr102&vid=23&hid=116 Summary: The article provided results of a continued study. Behavior developments arising from stressful child attachment situations of 243 French mothers and daughters were gathered. The quality of caregiving, attachment development, relationship between mother and child along with influences of maternal distress predict future psychosocial behaviors of middle school children. Insecure, distressed children have behavior problems such as trying to control their parents. How children externalize or internalize stress reflects future behavior issues, attachment relationships, and parental interaction. Strengths or Weaknesses: The validity of individual mother and child reports were valuable tools for problem assessments within the family regarding maladaptive attachment security. Various testing variables were also used to strengthen the results. Evaluation: Prior attachment...
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...relationship between stress and strain in solids. 6 Course Outcomes On successful completion of this module students will be able to 1. Understand the concept of strain and stress, stress- strain diagram, Elastic constants and constitutive relations.. 2. Determine principal stresses and strain and locate principal planes. 3. Apply the theory of simple bending to compute stresses in beams of homogenous and composite sections of different shapes. 4. Calculate slope and deflection in beams.Use Double integration method, Macaulay’s method, moment area method methods to calculate slope and deflection for the following : a) Cantilevers b) Simply supported beams with or without overhang Under concentrated loads, uniformly distributed loads or combination of concentrated and uniformly distributed loads. 5. Apply different formulae to analyze stresses in struts and columns subjected to axial loads. 7 Outline syllabus 7.01 MEC211.A Unit A Simple stresses and strains 7.02 MEC211.A1 Unit A Topic 1 Concept of stress and strain, St. Venant’s principle, Stress and strain diagram, Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus (E), Modulus of Rigidity(G), Bulk modulus(K), Poisson ratio. 7.03 MEC211.A2 Unit A Topic 2 Stress and elongation in a bar due to its self – weight, Elongation in case of a Taper rod, Stress in Varying cross-section and Load, Stress produced in compoundbars subjected to axial loading,Factor of safety. 7.04 MEC211.A3 Unit A Topic 3 Thermal stress and strain calculations...
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...At the end of the lesson, participants will be asked to share, by group discussion, two examples of positive communication they feel they practice in their daily lives. (Affective, application) 2. At the end of the lesson, participants will be able to practice 3 assertive communication techniques by group mock high stress situation role-play.(Psychomotor, application) 3. At the end of the lesson, participants will role-play a scenario using assertive communication in the workplace. (Psychomotor; application) Aggressive Communication 4. At the end of the lesson, participants will be able to analyze a condition that allows a judge to grant a domestic violence restraining order, as outlined in California Family Code § 6250.3, by presenting a group PowerPoint in front of the class. (analysis, cognitive) 5. At the end of the lesson, participants will name two signs of aggressive communication by writing a group list. (Cognitive; knowledge) 6. At the end of the lesson, participants will be able to identify different anger management techniques by completion...
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...Developing Mathematics Learning Skills Sharon Kidd College Algebra – MTH1090XB Instructor – James Baldone November 19, 2010 Developing Mathematics Learning Skills Introduction Mathematics skills play an important role in our lives. To understand math we must read our math books, and understand the use of technical terms like equation, integration and many more. Understanding terms is only part of learning mathematics skills. Comprehension and analysis is needed to understand math concepts. You cannot learn mathematics by being a spectator; you must perform the calculations yourself. Reading a solution in a book and watching someone else solve the problem is not sufficient, although it helps, you must use your brain to solve the problems and write out the full solution. If you are provided with the answers to a math problem or problems you may be able to see how each answer fits, but it is very different working out the problem yourself. The real understanding is if you can do the necessary work yourself or not. Mathematics Study Skills Knowing mathematical principles and concepts can help you to succeed in school and work. It is important to use study skills that apply well to math. The following are some study skills that should be utilized: * Study math everyday during the semester. * Have a specific time and place to study with few distractions. * Keep up to date with homework. * Find an...
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...the criminal justice career path many problems can arise. Stress from the job can create problems in the work field as well as in the personal and social areas of one’s life. Job stress can also tie into fatigue and alcohol and/or drug abuse. Fatigue gives us tired cops and tired cops can be a bad thing in the criminal justice field. Alcohol and drug abuse plagues cops everywhere. There are many suggestions for programs and treatment ideas for these problems that plague our law enforcement officers. Job stress can’t be avoided in any job field. It especially can’t be avoided in the field of law enforcement. Job stress can come from many sources. Having to exercise prudent discretion all the time, the threat of using violence and having violence used against them, and isolation from the rest of society are the major causes. It can lead to negative attitudes, burnout, loss of enthusiasm and commitment (aka cynicism), increased apathy, divorce, substance abuse and health problems, and many other social, personal, and job-related problematic behaviors. Work place support, training officers to cope with the effects of stress, stress management, and stress training are things that law enforcement are currently doing to lessen job stress. Stress training includes diet info, biofeedback, exercise, relaxation, and meditation. I believe that all law enforcement personnel should have to undergo psychological and fitness evaluations every three to six months. Fatigue is a growing problem...
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