Search for dissertations about: "stress scales"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 151 swedish dissertations containing the words stress scales.

  2. 1. Workplace stress measured by Job Stress Survey and relationships to musculoskeletal complaints

    Author : Stefan Holmström; Bo Molander; Margareta Barnekow-Bergkvist; Lars R Bergman; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Job stress; Job Stress Survey; work-related stress; musculoskeletal complaints; metal industry; differential item functioning; medical service; longitudinal.; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis was to evaluate and test the Job Stress Survey (JSS, Spielberger, 1991; Spielberger & Vagg, 1999), a self-report instrument which assesses workplace stress. In the thesis a thorough evaluation is made of JSS scales and items, and the relations to health, particularly musculoskeletal complaints. READ MORE

  4. 2. Personality, Stress, and Indoor Environmental Symptomatology

    Author : Roma Runeson; Dan Norbäck; Håkan Stattin; Lena Hillert; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Medical sciences; SBS; Personality traits; stress; KSP; SOC; demands-control-support; MEDICIN OCH VÅRD; MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Abstract : The sick building syndrome (SBS) comprises eye, nose, skin, and throat symptoms, headache and fatigue. Gender, personality aspects, and psychosocial factors at work have lately been at focus in health research. READ MORE

  5. 3. Stress efter traumatiska händelser. Ambulanspersonalens vardag

    Author : Anders Jonsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : stress in ambulance personnel; ambulance personnel; posttraumatic stress disorder; prehospital emergency work; traumatic events; working environment.;

    Abstract : Aims: Paper I: To examine the prevalence of posttraumatic stress reactions among ambulance personnel and to investigate whether different levels of Sense Of Coherence are related to different consequences of traumatic stress.Paper II: To uncover the essence of traumatic events experienced by Swedish ambulance personnel. READ MORE

  6. 4. Psychological aspects of patients with psoriasis: Biological and clinical studies

    Author : Charlotta Remröd; Yrkes- och miljödermatologi; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Psoriasis; psychology; Substance P; Neurokinin-1; stress; pruritus; anxiety; depression; personality;

    Abstract : Psychological distress is well known to be associated with psoriasis, both as a disease consequence, and as a causative factor for onset and exacerbations. Psychoneuroimmunological mechanisms have been suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of psoriasis and have often been shown to be related to psychological distress and pruritus in psoriasis. READ MORE

  7. 5. Human Abuses of Coral Reefs- Adaptive Responses and Regime Transitions

    Author : Ingrid Nordemar; Nils Kautsky; Michael Tedengren; Hans Kautsky; Alina Szmant; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Coral Reefs; Disturbance; Stress; Adaptive responses; Macroalgae; Ecosystem regimes; Resilience; Competition; Traits; Terrestrial; freshwater and marine ecology; Terrestisk; limnisk och marin ekologi;

    Abstract : During the last few decades, coral reefs have become a disappearing feature of tropical marine environments, and those reefs that do remain are severely threatened. It is understood that humans have greately altered the environment under which these ecosystems previously have thrived and evoloved. READ MORE