Psychological characteristics of organization and employees' stress tolerance in Japan: Focusing on affective, continuance and normative commitment.

The purpose of this study was to assess personality traits, psychological fitness, and hardiness among conscript soldiers volunteering for international missions ( n = 146), by comparing them with conscripts from the same year class and unit who did not apply for international missions ( n = 275). The sample consisted of all mandatory enlisted soldiers assigned to a supply and maintenance regiment. There were no demographic differences between the groups. The volunteers reported greater stress tolerance, concern for others, extraversion, and self-confidence than the non-volunteers. There were no differences between the groups in orderliness, temper instability, or independence. Volunteers repeatedly reported greater psychological fitness for military missions and greater hardiness over the period of military service compared to the non-volunteers.

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The influence of individual psychological characteristics on the eating behavior of the population in a gender, age and social context

Health Care of the Russian Federation ◽

10.46563/0044-197x-2020-64-2-68-75 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 68-75

Author(s):

Larisa A. Proskuryakova ◽

E.N. Lobykina

Keyword(s):

Eating Disorders ◽

Stress Tolerance ◽

Eating Behavior ◽

Risk Groups ◽

Target Population ◽

Multidimensional Analysis ◽

Psychological Characteristics ◽

Social Characteristics ◽

One Dimensional ◽

Personal Anxiety

Studying the dependence of eating disorders with several factors at the same time will reveal the target population groups that have the highest risk of developing these disorders, work with which will allow more efficient use of various methods of its correction. Purpose: to identify risk groups for the development of eating disorders depending on the individual psychological characteristics of the population, taking into account age and sex and social characteristics. Material and methods. 688 people aged 18 to 70 years were surveyed, individually-psychological characteristics, eating disorders were diagnosed. The relationship of eating disorders with age and gender, social and individual psychological characteristics was carried out by one-dimensional and multidimensional analysis. Results. It was showed that among the respondents 33% of sanguine people, 49% had a high level of personal anxiety, 49% had moderate stress tolerance, a tendency to develop emotional (1.9 ± 0.9) and restrictive (2.5 ± 1.0) types of eating behavior was also noted. Taking into account one-dimensional and multi-dimensional analyzes, the risk groups for developing eating disorders are: restrictive - women older than 28 years old inclusive with choleric temperament; emotiogenic - single respondents with low and high levels of anxiety; external - married men with a low level of stress tolerance and women with increased personal anxiety. Conclusions. The considered individual psychological characteristics of the population are associated with the types of EB disturbances with a combination of several parameters. The results indicate a possible risk of developing eating disorders in the population in the context of their individual psychological characteristics, age, sex and social characteristics, which can be used in targeted counseling and preventive work with the population by developing a specialized program for correcting eating behavior for each risk group.

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Personal features and functional state of organism in railway power dispatchers

Perm Medical Journal ◽

10.17816/pmj37595-104 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 37 (5) ◽

pp. 95-104

Author(s):

V. V. Serikov ◽

M. Yu. Rubtsov

Keyword(s):

Stress Tolerance ◽

Functional State ◽

Chronic Fatigue ◽

Psychological Characteristics ◽

Professional Stress ◽

Successful Work ◽

Status Assessment ◽

Professional Capacity ◽

Gender Features ◽

Psychological Parameters

Objective. The work of railway power dispatchers requires high professionalism. Criteria of successful work are health status, level of psychoemotional tension and adaptability, situational functional status. Assessment of significance in providing professional capacity for work and determination of personal psychological characteristics is of special interest. The aim was to analyze the functional state of an organism and personal psychological parameters in railway power dispatchers so as to determine the possibility of their use as criteria for evaluating stress tolerance and capacity for work including gender features. Materials and methods. The studies on express diagnosis of functional state and individual psychological testing using the method of Cettells sixteen-factor personality questionnaire were implemented among 59 power dispatchers (36 men and 23 women; mean age 40.17 1.37years, record of service 13.4 1.3 years) Results. Express testing of functional state showed the presence of chronic fatigue, distress state and other unfavorable changes in the functional state. Statistically significant differences among the errors while implementing the task by men and women (p 0.05) demonstrate the deeper manifestations of professional stress in women power dispatchers. The obtained data regarding psychological characteristics of power dispatchers mainly satisfy the requirements for implementation of their duties including the tension of labor of class 3.2 regarding communicative and intellectual properties as well, but there was detected the risk for changed emotional and regulatory properties of a person connected, probably, with fatigue and overfatigue as manifestations of professional stress that can cause reduction of the capacity for work. Conclusions. There was demonstrated an adequacy of using the methods for assessment of functional state and psychological parameters of a person as additional criteria for estimation of stress tolerance and capacity for work including gender features.

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Psychological characteristics of psoriatics. Implications for management

Archives of Dermatology ◽

10.1001/archderm.100.6.674 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 100 (6) ◽

pp. 674-676 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

L. A. Goldsmith

Keyword(s):

Psychological Characteristics

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Measuring the Situational Eight DIAMONDS Characteristics of Situations

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000246 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 155-164 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

John F. Rauthmann ◽

Ryne A. Sherman

Keyword(s):

Psychological Characteristics ◽

Current Work

Abstract. It has been suggested that people perceive psychological characteristics of situations on eight major dimensions ( Rauthmann et al., 2014 ): The “Situational Eight” DIAMONDS (Duty, Intellect, Adversity, Mating, pOsitivity, Negativity, Deception, Sociality). These dimensions have been captured with the 32-item RSQ-8. The current work optimizes the RSQ-8 to derive more economical yet informative and precise scales, captured in the newly developed S8*. Nomological associations of the original RSQ-8 and the S8* with situation cues (extracted from written situation descriptions) were compared. Application areas of the S8* are outlined.

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