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Assertiveness is the ability to express oneself and one's rights without violating the rights of others. The need for assertiveness is widely acknowledged in different work settings, and in order to manage the stress of working as part of a team every day, one has to become assertive. The purpose of present study is to investigate the effect of assertiveness skills on job burnout. The random sampling technique was employed. The data were gathered from 100 respondents. The adapted questionnaire was used. The advanced econometric technique was employed for data analysis. The SPSS 22 was employed as tool for data analysis. The findings of study revealed that assertiveness skills have negative effect on job burnout. With increase the level of assertiveness skills, increase consistency and confidence and reduce conflict and stress leads to decrease burnout. The study also recommends improving the management, regulation and facilities for preventing of risk of job burnout.

'In diesem Artikel wird in einer prospektiven Längsschnittstudie von fünf Jahren der Frage nachgegangen, welche Bedeutung Stress und individuelles bzw. dyadisches Coping für die Partnerschaftsstabilität hat. Die Stress- und Copingvariablen zum Zeitpunkt der Erstmessung werden als Prädiktoren für den Beziehungsstatus (stabil-zufrieden, stabil-unzufrieden, getrennt/ geschieden) nach fünf Jahren verwendet. An der Untersuchung nahmen zu t0 70 Paare teil. Nach fünf Jahren konnten die Analysen auf der Basis von Daten von 62 Paaren der Ursprungsstichprobe durchgeführt werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich stabil-zufriedene, stabil-unzufriedene und getrennt/ geschiedene Paare bezüglich Stress sowie des individuellen und dyadischen Copings signifikant unterscheiden. Stabil-zufriedene Paare wiesen im Mittelwert vor fünf Jahren insgesamt weniger Stress auf, praktizierten weniger häufig dysfunktionale individuelle Copingstrategien und griffen zur Stressbewältigung häufiger auf interpersonelles Coping (dyadisches Coping) zurück. Die Vorhersage des Partnerschaftsstatus gelang nach fünf Jahren mit 62,1 v.H. bei der Bildung von drei Gruppen (stabil-zufrieden, stabil-unzufrieden, getrennt/ geschieden) und mit 73,3 v.H. bei einer Unterscheidung in stabile versus getrennt/ geschiedene Paare.' (Autorenreferat)

Objective: To investigate the stress coping strategies developed by teachers in the Center of Health Sciences of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Method: This is an exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Data collection occurred from May 2013 to April/2012 with 37 teachers from semistructured interviews, and the data were analyzed through content analysis, using the method of thematic analysis. Results: From the speech of teachers were structured the categories: "Leisure Activities"; "Admittedly scant leisure activities"; "Coping with stressful situations in the university environment"; "Perception and the need for change". Conclusion: It could be observed from this study that teachers identify stressful situations related to work and leisure activities to reduce tensions, which, however, they do not practice. It is suggested greater institutional support and individual commitment in developing strategies that promote the welfare of teachers.

Women are traditionally considered to be confined within the four walls of their houses in the developing countries. They are still unable to play an active role in the development of society. They are striving to make their identity as an integral part of the society. Being a member of conservative developing society, women are still facing many hindrances, causing stressful situation for them, which prohibits them to participate actively in the economic development. This paper attempts to explore the critical factors creating stress among Pakistani working women. Based on literature review, the key stressors were identified to be as work life balance, gender discrimination, peers' behaviour, lack of promotional opportunities and sexual harassment. These factors were found to be creating physiological, behavioural and psychological problems. The target of this study was the women working in secretarial and administrative positions in Pakistani organisations. Regression analysis was conducted to find out the impact of these stressors on working women. The results revealed that sexual harassment, peers' behaviour and lack of promotional opportunities were the most dominant stressors.

The Nursing is considered the fourth most stressful profession in the public sector. Numerous intrinsic and extrinsic factors affect the work the individual making him susceptible to the development of labor emotional disturbances.The Burnout Syndrome is one of the manifestations of suffering more present among workers, and is characterized by a set of physical and psychological, consequential signs of poor adjustment to the work environment. This syndrome results from emotional stress due to the interaction with other people and interfere directly in maintaining the quality of life of the worker. The aim of this study is to discuss the occupational stress as an intervening factor in the occurrence of Burnout Syndrome and the influence of the same in the quality of life of the nurse inserted in the current socioeconomic context. This is a literature review, qualitative in nature and character descriptive. The results show that the highest incidence of burnout syndrome is among the workers who work in health care, due to their long-term involvement in situations of high demand. We conclude that one of the biggest challenges for nursing professionals today is reactivate the ability to care or be attentive to welcome their patients and at the same time, consider developing and maintaining their quality of life.

Hintergrund: Pflegekräfte sind enormen physischen und psychischen Belastungen ausgesetzt, die sich durch die Corona-Pandemie noch verstärkt haben. Die Folge sind langfristige Beeinträchtigungen von Gesundheit, Wohlbefinden und Arbeitsfähigkeit. Aus diesem Grund hat das Psychotraumazentrum der Bundeswehr ein "Nachbereitungsseminar pandemieassoziierter Belastungen" konzipiert. Ziel ist es, die Resilienz von Pflegekräften zu steigern und so Belastungen im Arbeitsalltag besser kompensierbar zu machen. Material und Methode: Im Rahmen einer Pilotuntersuchung wurden das Nachbereitungsseminar an 28 Pflegekräften (14 Soldatinnen und Soldaten und 14 Zivilangestellte der Bundeswehr) erprobt, die auf COVID-Stationen tätig waren. Die Evaluation der Maßnahme erfolgte in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Präventivmedizin der Bundeswehr und umfasste eine Befragung der Teilnehmenden, die auch die Allgemeine Selbstwirksamkeit Kurzskala (ASKU) beinhaltete. Ergebnisse: Das Nachbereitungsseminar pandemieassoziierter Belastungen verbesserte nicht nur die Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung der teilnehmenden Pflegekräfte, sondern steigerte auch deren subjektive Sicherheit im Umgang mit allgemeinem Stress und moralischen Konflikten. Die Maßnahme erreichte darüber hinaus eine hohe Akzeptanz: Alle Teilnehmenden stuften die Seminarinhalte als "wichtig" oder "sehr wichtig" für den eigenen dienstlichen Alltag ein und erteilten der Frage nach einer Weiterempfehlung des Seminars den höchstmöglichen Zustimmungswert. Fazit: Vor dem Hintergrund ständig steigender Arbeitsanforderungen und -belastungen im Pflegebereich wird empfohlen, Resilienzförderungsmaßnahmen innerhalb der Bundeswehrkrankenhäuser zu verstetigen und auszuweiten.

Objective: to evaluate stress and coping among relatives of patients in the perioperative cardiac surgery.
Method: it is a quantitative, analytical and cross-sectional study developed in a postage hospital IV, with 53
relatives waiting in the waiting room of the surgical center. Data were collected between March and April
2013 through a socio-demographic questionnaire and Symptom Inventory of Stress and Coping Inventory
of Jalowiec. A Research Ethics Committee, approved the research project, number 198.527. Results: 60% are
women, aged between 18 and 58 years old, married, with children, catholic, most of them daughters of patients.
As for the stages of stress, 60% were in the intermediate phase and the majority used the sustaintive coping style.
Conclusion: the results may support health professionals - researchers and managers - and mobilize integrated
actions towards qualified assistance in the perioperative, with emphasis on care to patients and families.

Objective: the objective is to identify situations of stress experienced by the members of the nursing staff of Intensive Care Unit to care for a potential organ donor. Method: Qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, with fourteen members of the nursing staff who work with the potential organ donor. The data were collected through semistructured interviews and analyzed on the basis of the analysis of thematic content. Results: Health professionals feel threatened to identify with the situation of the person in brain death, by the fear of the death itself, with the doubt in relation to brain death and also because of the feeling of failure as a professional. Conclusion: The nursing staff in front of the potential organ donor comes under stressful situations, having to overcome the challenges and to mobilize strategies from the situations that are presented.

This article looks at 9/11 trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Don DeLillo's Falling Man. This asserts that 9/11 has brought about not only political, social, economic and cultural consequences but also caused victims on the personal level. This paper demonstrates how Keith, the protagonist of the novel, has been affected by 9/11. In other words, this article examines Keith's traumatic experience of witnessing his close friend's death, the falling man, and escaping his own impending death in the north tower and how these horrible scenes affect Keith's perception of self. Eventually, this article concludes that DeLillo's Falling Man presents the reality of what the survivors have experienced during and after the attacks, and the complication of trauma and PTSD that turns their world topsy-turvy.

Objective: To identify, according to the reference of nursing professionals, which stress factors have the greatest influence in the attention process; and analyze, which ones generate greater impact in the development of care activities. Method: This is a quantitative, descriptive correlational study where connections among stress, attention and nursing care have been described. Results: 50 nursing professions were evaluated. 54% (n = 27) stated that stress factors interfere on the levels of attention given by nursing professionals in carrying out their care tasks. 55% (n = 15) point that stress factors related to the working environment are the ones that interfere the most on the levels of attention, followed by stressors classified as biological (n = 10) and psychological (n = 02). Conclusion: Stress factors related to the work environment had the greatest influence on attention and are possibly the ones that affect the most the quality of care provided to clients.

This article aims to determine the level of life skills training effect on the educational stress of the Islamic Azad University students of Sanandaj in 2013-2014 and it was done by using the experimental research method with pre-test and post-test of interviewed (testifier) group. The statistic society of this article consist of all Islamic Azad University students of Sanandaj in 2013-2014 that based on statistics it was about 11000 persons that Cochran's model was used for estimating the sample size and 277 persons were chosen casually. According to the sample size, firstly the student life stress questionnaire was performed and 60 persons of people that had maximum students life stress depend on questionnaire scale were chosen and screened. The 60 screened persons were divided into two experimental group and control group. It means that 30 people in the experimental group that was taken under the life skills training and 30 people as Control group in order to being compared with the experimental group in the terms of life skills training effect of the educational stress. For surveying the variable s relation, analysis statics and independent T test were used. The result showed that in the terms of life skills training effect on educational stress (there is a meaningful difference between the experimental group and control group) or in other hand, life skills had meaningful effect on the educational stress deduction.

People increasingly work with autonomous systems, which progressively take over functions previously performed exclusively by humans. This may lead to situations in which automated agents give negative performance feedback, which represents an important work-related social stressor. Little is known about how negative feedback provided by computers (as opposed to humans) affects human performance and subjective state. A first experiment (N = 60) focused on the influence of human feedback on performance. After participants had performed a cognitive task, they received a manipulated performance feedback (either positive or negative) from a human (comparing to a control with no feedback) and subsequent performance on several cognitive tasks and the participants' subjective state was measured. The results showed that while negative feedback had a negative influence on several subjective state measures, performance remained unimpaired. In a second experiment (N = 89), participants received manipulated negative feedback by a human or by a computer (or no feedback at all) after having completed an ability test. Subsequent performance was measured on attention tasks and creativity tasks and participants' subjective state was assessed. Although participants felt stressed by both negative computer and human feedback, subsequent performance was again not impaired. However, computer feedback was rated as being less fair than human feedback. Overall, our findings show that there are costs of protecting one's performance against negative feedback and they call for caution regarding the use of negative feedback by both human and automated agents in work settings.

'Theoretischer Hintergrund: Bestehende Befunde verweisen auf ein erhöhtes Belastungsniveau bei Eltern von einem Kind mit einem Down-Syndrom. In der vorliegenden Untersuchung sollte nun erstmals eine differenzierte Betrachtung der Zusammenhänge zwischen elterlichen Belastungen aufgrund des Kindes mit einem Down-Syndrom, individuellen, dyadischen sowie sozialen Ressourcen und Befindlichkeitsvariablen durch die empirische Überprüfung eines theoretischen Stressmodells erfolgen. Methode: Das Stressmodell wurde sowohl für das elterliche Geschlecht als auch die Copingfunktion getrennt mittels Pfadanalysen an den Angaben von 75 Elternpaaren berechnet. Ergebnisse: Das pfadanalytische Modell konnte mit den emotionalen mütterlichen und instrumentellen Ressourcen beider Elternteile belegt werden. Schlussfolgerung: Obwohl die Wichtigkeit der partnerschaftlichen Unterstützung bei der Bewältigung von kindbezogenen Belastungen bestätigt wurde, waren individuelle und soziale Ressourcen von Bedeutung.' (Autorenreferat)

'Um Aufschlüsse über die Zeitverwendung von TelearbeiterInnen zu erlangen, wurden die Zeitbudgets von Telearbeitern über eine Woche hinweg erfasst. Unterschieden wurden Erwerbsarbeit im Betrieb und zu Hause, Haushaltstätigkeiten, familiale Arbeit, persönliche Zeit sowie Schlaf. Zusätzlich wurde die subjektive Beanspruchung betrachtet. Es zeigte sich, dass die Wochenarbeitszeit bei TelearbeiterInnen nach tradiertem Muster verteilt ist. Der Schwerpunkt der Erwerbsarbeit lag auf den Werktagen, während sich die Hausarbeit gleichmäßig auf die ganze Woche verteilte. Die Haushaltsaktivitäten und die Kinderbetreuung lagen überwiegend in der Verantwortung der weiblichen TelearbeiterInnen und folgten somit einer traditionellen Rollenverteilung. Die psychische Beanspruchung während der Telearbeit war verglichen mit den anderen genannten Tätigkeitsklassen am höchsten ausgeprägt. Die Befunde werden im Zusammenhang mit integrierten Modellen der Arbeits- und Lebenswelt diskutiert.' (Autorenreferat)

Objective: identifying the effects of stress on the physical and mental body of nursing professionals working
in the ICU of a university hospital in Natal, RN. Method: it was a qualitative study of a descriptive approach,
conducted together with twenty-one nursing professionals of that institution. Data collection took place
from a semi-structured interview. This started after the study was approved under the CEP-HUOL under
number of CAAE 0037.0.294.000-11. The analysis of these data was done by content analysis. Results: the
category resulting from the analysis of these data was titled "The suffering body: the manifestations of
stress" and among the most evident symptoms by respondents highlight the physical and mental fatigue,
muscle pain, imbalance in the cycle of weight. Conclusion: these symptoms contribute to professional stress
and diminish the quality of life of these workers in their work environment.