Biomedical subjects

K Janman

Publications and source records attributed to K Janman.

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PubMed1988

Clustering individuals as a way of dealing with multiple predictors in occupational stress research.

As the number and type of variables thought to affect the amount of stress experienced by an individual in the workplace increase, and as these effects are often found to be nonlinear and to interact with each other, the forms of statistical analyses employed present different costs and benefits. The use of cluster analysis as a preliminary means of categorizing individuals is described as the least artificial and empirically most accurate means of deriving groups that can lead to hypotheses and hypothesis testing using the more conventional means of analysis of variance. Such a methodology is described as it was applied to an investigation of the effects of demands, attitudes to demands, supports-constraints, and trait neuroticism upon job satisfaction and scores on the General Health Questionnaire for a sample of psychiatric nurses.

Affective Symptoms↗

PubMed1987

Some determinants of stress in psychiatric nurses.

This paper reports the results of an empirical study of psychological stress in nurses employed in a large Special Hospital and caring for mentally disturbed patients who may be a danger to themselves or to others. Such an environment would appear to be dangerous and stressful and the findings of this study show that this sample of nurses do indeed report relatively high levels of stress when compared to some other employed samples. Relationships between psychological distress, anxiety and depression and aspects of their jobs, such as job demands, supports and constraints, are discussed. Individual differences in experiences of stress are also considered.

Anxiety↗

PubMed1983

Feedback modality and dimension in voluntary skin temperature control.

Ten male and ten female subjects were trained in the voluntary control of peripheral skin temperature, under four different conditions of feedback. These conditions were (i) visual proportional, (ii) visual binary, (iii) auditory proportional, and (iv) auditory binary. Results were analyzed using a repeated-measures ANOVA and showed a significant effect attributable to dimension, with proportional displays promoting faster acquisition of control than binary displays. No differences were detected between the visual and the auditory modes or in gender identity. The importance of these results is discussed with reference to the present need for a taxonomy of feedback displays which would optimize the effects of feedback training in a clinical milieu.

Adult↗