Anna Praskova

ORCID: 0000-0002-6436-5100
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Research Areas
  • Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Career Development and Diversity
  • Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
  • Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Nursing education and management
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Diverse Scientific Research Studies
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Health and Well-being Studies

Southern Cross University
2018-2021

Metro South Health
2016-2018

Griffith University
2013-2018

Menzies School of Health Research
2016

We tested a cross-sectional, mediation model of career calling, in which calling was associated positively with life satisfaction and perceptions future employability, these relationships were explained by the self-regulatory mechanisms work effort, strategies, emotional regulation. Using sample 664 emerging adults (74.8% female, mean age = 20.2 years) structural equation modeling, we found that higher perceived employability. In addition, more greater use Work effort regulation mediated...

10.1177/0894845314541517 article EN Journal of Career Development 2014-07-03

Career calling, a salient career goal that is personally meaningful and oriented toward helping others, developmental construct especially important for emerging adults when making decisions setting goals. As no existing measure reflects the aspect of we devised an age-appropriate suitable use with this population. We reviewed extant literature, conducted focus groups, used expert reviews to generate 34 initial items. Item exploratory factor analyses were employed reduce these items 15,...

10.1177/1069072714523089 article EN Journal of Career Assessment 2014-02-12

We surveyed 355 junior doctors (first 4 years of post-university training; 69% female, mean age = 28 years) from multiple hospital and practice locations used an online questionnaire to assess their training-related demands (academic stress, concern about training debt, hours worked), academic burnout, personal resources (operationalized as career calling). tested whether were associated with burnout calling moderated the association between burnout. The accounted for approximately one third...

10.1177/0894845313520493 article EN Journal of Career Development 2014-01-22

Career distress is a common and painful outcome of many negative career experiences, such as indecision, compromise, discovering barriers. However, there are very few scales devised to assess distress, the two existing identified have psychometric weaknesses. The absence practical, validated scale this construct restricts research related limits practitioners who need treat it. Using sample 226 young adults (mean age 20.5 years), we employed item response theory 12 items for model fit, bias,...

10.1177/1069072715616126 article EN Journal of Career Assessment 2015-11-14

We surveyed Australian adolescents and parents to test differences congruence in perceptions of adolescent career development tasks (career planning, exploration, certainty, world-of-work knowledge) vocational identity. found that, for ( N = 415), (not exploration) explained 48% the variance identity; this was 38% knowledge). Parent did not explain additional There were moderate correlations between parent identity, suggesting meaningful, but substantial, perceptions. The findings provide...

10.1177/0894845316667483 article EN Journal of Career Development 2016-09-11

The aim was to explore nurses' perceptions of career success.Career success is a concept which leads improving professional behaviours. Research that focused on conceptualizing found it be complex, value-driven construct likely perceived differently across work and cultural contexts. It not yet clear what constitutes success, how by nurses in Iran. More comprehensive exploration this nursing needed, so research policymaking can advance informed, data-driven manner.This qualitative...

10.1111/inr.12460 article EN International Nursing Review 2018-07-11

Evidence is unequivocal: the premature death of people with severe mental health problems attributable primarily to cardiovascular disease, and healthcare provided often suboptimal. With overarching aim improving outcomes, policies guidelines oblige services psychiatrists monitor cardio-metabolic patients intervene as appropriate. Practice highly variable; however, ongoing debate about resourcing responsibilities dominated by clinicians who have identified disinterest among influencing...

10.1111/hsc.12349 article EN Health & Social Care in the Community 2016-04-19

Future orientation is crucial for young people to achieve career-developmental milestones, yet little research has examined the role of future in attaining career outcomes adult samples. Using framework, we tested direct effects on agency (proactive behaviors and work effort) success (perceived employability adaptability), indirect via variables, conditional negative feedback orientation-career agency-career relationships. We surveyed 285 adults ( M = 38.38 years) conducted structural...

10.1177/1069072720980174 article EN Journal of Career Assessment 2020-12-24

The stress people experience in relation to a highly stressful event, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can undermine their sense of meaning life. This study examined relationship between pandemic-related and life whether self-compassion savoring positive emotional moderated this relationship.Participants (N = 498) completed measures stress, dimensions (comprehension, purpose, mattering), (self-kindness, common humanity, mindfulness), (savoring through anticipation, moment,...

10.1080/10615806.2021.1974408 article EN Anxiety Stress & Coping 2021-09-13

This study set to provide an age- and culturally-appropriate measure of career calling for Korean young adults. We conducted a literature review identified suitable, 15-item Career Calling Scale Emerging Adults. translated all items into Korean, back-translated English, verified accuracy. An exploratory factor analysis revealed three factors reflecting those the original scale ( other-oriented meaning, active engagement, personal meaning; Stage 1; N = 152), confirmatory supported that these...

10.1177/1069072716639852 article EN Journal of Career Assessment 2016-04-07

Identifying a large discrepancy in young people’s career goal progress can lead to distress, activating meaning-making, self-regulatory mechanisms aimed at resolving the uncomfortable situation. We assessed these important career-regulatory processes theoretical model by testing indirect effects of on adjustment (assimilation and accommodation) via conditionality based two moderators (career calling negative feedback). In cross-sectional study, we recruited 287 adults with mean age 23.79...

10.1177/10690727211063372 article EN Journal of Career Assessment 2021-12-24

Background and Purpose: COVID-19 is a new infectious-disease first identified in December 2019 China, since it spread globally, resulted Pandemic. Much research needed to understand the disease, especially its clinical characteristics. The aim of present study was explore features, diagnosis, treatment Tabriz, Iran.
 Materials Methods: This case series single center that focused retrospectively on characteristics 140 early consecutive cases with confirmed COVID-19, who were hospitalized...

10.18502/jhs.v9i1.5968 article EN cc-by-nc Iranian Journal Of Health Sciences 2021-04-11

Objective: The objective of this study was to inform planning for similar events, our aim describe undertaken by Brisbane Mental Health Services the 2014 G20 Summit and impact on service use. Methods: We analysed routinely collected data comparing presentations discharges same time period in two consecutive years. Results: While mental health services increased from previous year across a five-month (including month G20), week showed little change. Conclusions: Our findings will be useful...

10.1177/1039856216671653 article EN Australasian Psychiatry 2016-09-29

To develop and test the psychometric properties of an instrument assessing career success in nurses.Despite importance achieving nursing, to date, this construct has been measured using unidimensional or generic scales not fully reflecting as perceived by nurses.This scale development study used a large sample nurses across 10 hospitals Tabriz, Iran. Items were generated based on existing literature previous, research team-led, qualitative study, followed testing content face validity items....

10.1111/inr.12631 article EN International Nursing Review 2020-11-07

10.5593/sgemsocial2018h/31/s13.075 article EN SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on Social Sciences and Arts 2018-03-20

Aim: To inform service improvement by describing the process and impact of an initiative designed to enable metabolic monitoring among people with severe mental illness who are homeless avoid services. Method:A mixed methods observational study; analysis quantitative qualitative data from documents, clinical records interviews providers enabled a detailed account intervention impact.To enhance transferability was informed theoretical model behaviour change.Results: Provision education,...

10.33582/2637-8027/1011 article EN cc-by Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 2018-08-09
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