A5010630539- Resilience and Mental Health
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Obesity and Health Practices
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
East Carolina University
2008-2024
Baltimore Healthy Start
2014
University of Michigan
2005
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
2005
The University of Texas at Austin
2000-2003
The University of Texas at San Antonio
2003
Objective: In this pilot study, the authors examined effectiveness of a 4-week resilience intervention to enhance resilience, coping strategies, and protective factors, as well decrease symptomatology during period increased academic stress. Participants Methods: College students were randomly assigned experimental (n = 30) wait-list control 27) groups. The group received psychoeducational in 4 two-hour weekly sessions. Measures administered pre- postintervention both Results: Analyses...
Purpose. To investigate the reliability and validity of a single-item overall job satisfaction measure. Methods. Public agency employees (n = 745) were surveyed regarding satisfaction, work, personality, health variables. The measure underwent following analyses: correction for attenuation formula to estimate minimum reliability; correlations with multiple-item measures determine concurrent validity, construct specific relevance promotion; logistic regression predictability turnover...
Abstract Over the past several decades, stress research has experienced a broadening of its pathologic focus to encompass concept resilience. There is wealth on resilience but no general consensus regarding conceptualization. Some define as attaining eventual favorable outcomes following exposure adversity. Others it specific relatively short‐term responses characterized by return homeostasis after initial disruption due stressor, and still others refer resources that enable individual...
This study tested a conceptual model based on research supporting the relationship between predictors of hardiness, supervisor support, and group cohesion criterions job stress satisfaction predictor criterion satisfaction.The employed cross-sectional design. Survey data were collected as part baseline measures assessed prior to an organizational hardiness intervention.Worksite Dell Computer Corporation in Austin, Texas.The subjects included 160 full-time employees recruited from convenience...
To test a theoretically and empirically based model linking potential protective resources (hardiness, coworker supervisor support) to the outcomes of work stress job satisfaction replicating relationship while accounting for influence negative affectivity.A cross-sectional research design using survey data collected from two convenience samples.Two worksites: (1) high-tech company (2) government agency.High-tech employees (N = 310; response rate, 73.8%) agency 745; 49.7%).The Dispositional...
Abstract Correlates of stress‐related growth and the effectiveness a resilience intervention to enhance were examined. College students randomly assigned ( n = 31) waiting list control 33) groups. The group received psychoeducational intervention, Transforming Lives Through Resilience Education, in four weekly 2‐hour sessions. Measures personal, environmental stressor characteristics, coping strategies, adjustment assessed. Multiple regressions revealed that pre‐intervention self‐esteem,...
Interviews were conducted with 21 pregnant or recently African American and Caucasian low-income women living in a rural southeastern community to elicit perceived barriers seeking help for depressive symptoms pregnancy ways overcome these barriers, as well intervention suggestions. Participants identified themes regarding help. These were: (1) lack of trust, (2) judgment/stigma, (3) dissatisfaction the health care system, (4) not wanting Themes overcoming facilitating trust offering support...
This study’s purpose was to examine the efficacy of abbreviated progressive muscle relaxation (APMR) enhance physiological and psychological functioning among high-stress college students. Participants (N 128) were undergraduates, 19 years old on average, predominantly female White, with high Perceived Stress Scale scores. After random assignment, for 20 min, 66 experimental group participants underwent APMR lying down 62 control lied quietly. Pre- postintervention measures included Endler...
Two cross-sectional studies were conducted to examine the correlations between concept of self-leadership (as described within framework internal family systems model) and enhanced psychological, health, work outcomes. In Study 1, was significantly related higher psychological functioning (e.g., effective coping style, greater optimism hardiness, less ineffectiveness interpersonal distrust) better health status perceived wellness, stress, fewer symptoms illness) in a sample university...
Abstract Two studies were conducted to develop and validate the Sense of Support Scale (SSS). Study I, which consisted scale development an evaluation with a sample corporate university employees, supported scale's internal consistency construct validity. 2, was undergraduate students, designed evaluate revised shortened version SSS. The found be internally consistent had high test-retest reliability. Concurrent validity by significant correlations Social Provisions Interpersonal Evaluation...
To examine relationships of work and individual protective factors to health outcomes.Participants from 2 corporate samples completed measures supervisor support, hardiness, coping, global stress, symptoms illness.Regression analyses indicated that higher scores on hardiness approach coping being male predicted lower stress illness. Additionally, support fewer illness but did not have a spillover effect onto stress.Interventions enhance primarily secondarily may be most effective in reducing...
Many women experience depressive symptoms after childbirth, and rates among African Americans are as high 40%. Spirituality religiosity valued in American communities, but their relevance to new mothers has not been empirically tested. We examined effects of spirituality on trajectories during the year childbirth. Data were collected by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Child Health Human Development Community Network, which focuses maternal-child health disparities. The sample...
Relationships between workaholism, work-leisure conflict, and work stress were examined. The sample consisted of 339 working adults in the United States. Workaholism was positively correlated with stress. Additionally, leisure conflict related to both workaholism Moreover, though not a significant moderator, mediator such that leads increased which turn heightened results establish workaholism's wide reach as it can also affect through other variables, conflict. Developing interventions for...
This mixed-methods pilot study investigated maternal perceived stress specific to infant neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization as a moderator of the relationship between traumatic childbirth appraisal and symptoms posttraumatic disorder (PTSD). NICU mothers ( N = 77) were recruited via social media 1 4 months postpartum for cross-sectional survey about perinatal experiences. Measures included childbirth, PTSD Checklist DSM -5, Parental Stressor Scale (PSS): NICU. Quantitative...
Abstract Background: Health educators have long advocated health promotion, yet their measurement techniques a pathogenic focus. Pathogenesis refers to the origin of disease and chain events (precursors) leading that disease. Traditional tools with this focus therefore measure by assessing for absence or associated risk factors. Salutogenesis, as proposed Aaron Antonovsky, factors precursors good similar how pathogenesis focuses on bad health. Purpose: This study proposes scale salutogenic...
Abstract Background Experiencing a miscarriage can have profound psychological implications, and the added strain of COVID-19 pandemic may compounded these effects. This study aimed to explore experiences, assess levels distress (depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder), examine relationships personal significance perceived with women in North Carolina who suffered desired pregnancy between March 30, 2020, February 24, 2021, pandemic, at 14 31 months after loss. Methods We...