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A Pisarski

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PubMed2001

Effects of supervisor support and coping on shiftwork tolerance.

This study examines the effects of supervisor support and coping on work/non-work conflict and health in shiftwork. It describes a model of shiftwork tolerance that is tested on samples from two populations of shiftworkers. The samples--of nurses and ambulance workers--differed by occupation, gender and shift schedule. Quantitative (survey questionnaire) and qualitative methods (in-depth interviews) were used to triangulate results and to yield richer data on psychosocial variables. Structural equation modelling, using EQS, was used to describe the common path relationships observed within both samples of shiftworkers. The results demonstrated important relationships between social support from supervisors, coping strategies, work/non-work conflict and symptoms that transferred robustly between the two populations of shiftworkers.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1998

Effects of coping strategies, social support and work-nonwork conflict on shift worker's health.

OBJECTIVES: This study examines the direct and mediated effects of shift workers' coping strategies and social support on structural work-nonwork conflict and subjective health. METHODS: The participants were 172 registered female nurses, aged 21 to 40 years. They all worked full-time, on rapidly rotating, 8-hour shifts in metropolitan general hospitals. All the respondents completed a self-administered questionnaire requesting demographic information and data on sources of social support, work-nonwork conflict, and coping strategies. RESULTS: A path model with good fit (chi2=28.88, df=23, P>.23, CFI=0.97) demonstrated complex effects of social support and coping on structural work-nonwork conflict and health. CONCLUSIONS: Structural work-nonwork conflict mediated the effects of social support from supervisors and emotionally expressive coping on psychological symptoms. Control of shifts mediated the effect of social support from supervisors on structural work-nonwork conflict. Disengagement coping had direct and mediated effects on psychological and physical health. However, it also had mediated effects, with the effect on psychological health being mediated by support from co-workers and the effect on physical symptoms being mediated by family support. Co-worker support mediated the effect of social support from supervisors on psychological symptoms. Overall, these findings support previous research and clarify the process by which coping strategies and social support affect structural work-nonwork conflict and health in shift work.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1996

A needs analysis of Brisbane lesbians: implications for the lesbian community.

This study examined the needs of lesbians in Brisbane, a state capital city of Australia, and the importance of lesbian "community" in meeting those needs. The extent to which a lesbian community can meet the needs of individual lesbians is dependent on what those needs are, the prevailing social climate, and the resulting degree of access by lesbians to the community. This study examined lesbians' perceptions of their individual needs and the extent to which they looked to their community to meet those needs. Overall, the results indicated that lesbians in Brisbane had many unmet needs which, in many instances, cut across the demographic spectrum of age, politics, stage of identity development, religious beliefs, occupation, and educational achievements. These can be broadly categorized as needs that related to the lesbian community itself and external needs that related to changes needed in heterosexual society. The results of this study indicated that characteristics of community do exist within the Brisbane lesbian subculture. There were distinct, identifiable, interacting small groups and social networks in existence. However, a common need was for an identifiable, accessible, lesbian community that could provide stable, long-term services and cultural and social activities. In Brisbane lesbians also needed a focus that superseded the needs of individual lesbians and their small interacting social networks. This study highlighted the need for further research into the area of lesbian community identity formation.

Adolescent↗
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[Further research into the formation of the "vitality and adequacy of emotion-emotional blunting" relationship in paranoid schizophrenia].

A sample of 100 paranoidal schizophrenic patients were assessed. Scales of "vitality and the adequacy of emotion" and "emotional blunting" which are described in a separate paper were used. At the beginning attention was focused on the fact that several synonimous terms are used to describe the blunting of emotion (flatness of affect, blunted or inappropriate affect, presence of affect as opposed to flatness). The results indicate that in only a very few cases the intensity of both studied qualities was negligible, however in the majority of the cases it appeared that the quality of "vitality" and its opposite is present. In 62 patients the emotional blunting was moderate. Emotional vitality in these cases remained in the wide range from moderate to significant. Both factors may be considered to be additional factors on the basis of the size and type of correlation. The coefficient of both Scales is expressed by r = -0.77. The correlation between the studied proportion and the syntonic-autistic proportion is expressed by r = 0.69. The cases of emotional blunting which occurred at different levels of intensity were generally accompanied by relative vitality and adequate emotional reaction. The formation of the studied proportion and in particular the high correlation coefficient between this proportion and the syntonic-autistic proportion suggests that autistic schizophrenia and syntonic schizophrenia form two basic subgroups of paranoidal schizophrenia.

Emotions↗