Search for dissertations about: "stress factors"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 1215 swedish dissertations containing the words stress factors.

  2. 1. Migration, Stress and Mental Ill Health : Post-migration Factors and Experiences in the Swedish Context

    Author : Petter Tinghög; Lennart Nordenfelt; John Carstensen; Thomas Hemmingsson; Matti Similä; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cross-cultural equivalence; foreign-born; Hopkins Symptom Checklist HSCL-25 ; Living conditions; mental ill health; migration; phenomenology; population-based; Risk factors; Stress; WHO Wellbeing Index; Cross-cultural equivalence; foreign-born; Hopkins Symptom Checklist HSCL-25 ; Living conditions; mental ill health; migration; phenomenology; population-based; risk factors; stress; WHO Wellbeing Index; invandrare; psykisk hälsa; migration; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    Abstract : This predominantly empirical dissertation deals with how socio-economic living conditions and immigrant-specific factors can be linked to immigrants’ mental ill health. It is also explored how cultural representations can affect stress and whether mental ill health is expressed differently among immigrants from Iraq and Iran than among individuals of Nordic origin. READ MORE

  4. 2. Migraine and Stress : An Internet administered Multimodal Behavioral Treatment Intervention

    Author : Kerstin Hedborg; Carin Muhr; Ulla Maria Anderberg; Töres Theorell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Awakening Cortisol Response; Cognitive Behavioral Treatment; Gender; Hand Massage; Internet; Life Events; Migraine; Multimodal; Personality; Salivary Cortisol; Stress; Stress Marker; Stress Susceptibility; Neurology; Neurologi; Neurology; Neurologi;

    Abstract : Migraine is a disabling neurological disorder with high prevalence, the clinical manifestations of which are highly dependent on stress. The overall theme of the present thesis was to address aspects of stress in migraine. READ MORE

  5. 3. Workload transitions and stress : changes over time

    Author : Erik Prytz; Mark Scerbo; USA VA Norfolk Old Dominion University Department of Psychology; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; human factors; workload transition; stress; workload;

    Abstract : Workload transitions are situations where operators are suddenly confronted with levels of workload substantially different from previously established levels. Workload transitions may affect the operators' state of stress and coping behaviors but previous research has not conclusively demonstrated the nature of those. READ MORE

  6. 4. Parenting stress : Conceptual and methodological issues

    Author : Monica Östberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Parenting stress; dimensionality; validity; structural equation modeling; social support; infant temperament; responsiveness; Psykologi; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : High parenting stress has been connected with negative consequences for both parent and child. The aim of the present thesis was to examine factors contributing to high stress, and to develop a psychometrically sound, reliable, and valid instrument for measuring parenting stress. READ MORE

  7. 5. Stress and the Offspring : Adaptive Transgenerational Effects of Unpredictability on Behaviour and Gene Expression in Chickens (Gallus gallus)

    Author : Daniel Nätt; Per Jensen; Berry Spruijt; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : Chicken; Red junglefowl; Domestication; Epigenetics; Transgenerational; Inheritance; Gene expression; Microarray; qRT-PCR; Immunogenetics; Immunoglobulin; Estradiol; Steriod hormones; Prenatal stress; Epigenetic inheritance; Adaptation; Stress; Behaviour; Ethology of domestic animals; Husdjurens etologi;

    Abstract : Environmental stress has shown to affect both the exposed individuals and the development of their offspring. Generally, it is thought that the stressed organism responds to stress by trying to adapt to it. READ MORE