DO YOU FEEL A LOT OF STRESS AT THE BORDER TODAY?

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Jari Pursiainen
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Questionnaire Response ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Stress Research ◽  
Inspection Work ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Preventive Methods ◽  
Reducing Stress

In my border inspection staffs stress research I tried to establish how the border inspection staff experienced stress and how to cope with stress in different ways. My research was set out to identify coping mechanisms at their disposal and the ones the staff has found effective in reducing stress at the border inspection work. The data consisted of the results obtained in previous studies, and relevant theories, as well as on the results of the survey carried out on border inspection staff. Also, I used my own experiences for the benefit of my findings. The survey was carried out for three different border crossing points in Finland, the land border at Vaalimaa, sea border with the South Harbour and in air traffic at Helsinki- Vantaa airport. The results of this research consisted of comparisons questionnaire response to investigated background variables and how the respondents’ answered about the intensity of the stress and their opinion what survey claims. For these facts, and individuals experiencing about the stress, was based on indicators that could allow cross-tabulation application towards to my research objectives. My research queries can be reused and applied in a wide variety of workplace stress research. The potential effects of today's refugee flows for stress are well known. How is this pressure experienced at the border? Does it cause stress reaction and how is it dealt with? These questions have not been answered here or elsewhere. One research in the United States in 2012 investigated the effects of the border guards' emotional abilities on their lives. In Finland the Border Guard participates as the End User in EU’s BODEGA research project which through research aims to find more effectiveness for personnel’s human factors together with developed border control infrastructure. My research and these above-mentioned researches are aimed at developing preventive methods for border security staff to maintain stress and develop supervision of work. My research focused on experiencing and coping with stress in border inspection work and the results are applicable in the border inspection work even today.

Cost of Cash: Evidence from Cashiers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. P. L. Png ◽  
Charmaine H. Y. Tan
Keyword(s):  
Wage Differential ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Payment Systems ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Compensating Wage Differential ◽  
The Cost ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Supermarket Cashiers

An important but overlooked cost of payments in retailing is the cost on checkout cashiers. This paper examines the compensating wage differential that cashiers require to handle payments in cash. First, a multicountry panel data study shows that cashier wages increase with retail cash usage, which is consistent with cashiers requiring compensation to handle cash. Second, in a discrete choice experiment where supermarket cashiers chose between collecting card and cash payments, eight of 10 cashiers preferred card to cash. Among those who preferred card, the median cashier required a wage premium of S$37.50 (US$27) a month to handle cash. The premium was lower among cashiers who are local, less risk averse, and younger. Third, in a laboratory study, subjects traded off earnings against stress. With higher frequency of cash payments, high earners experienced greater physiological stress than low earners. Earnings also increased with abilities in arithmetic and coping with stress. Collectively, these studies show that cashiers require higher wages to handle cash payments, in part due to higher stress. We offer policy, managerial, and research implications for job design, payment systems, and workplace stress.

LIFE SKILL EDUCATION:STASTUS, PRACTICE AND POLICY IN INDIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geeta Shinde
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Decision Making Problem ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
And Coping

Now a day’sparents, teachers,students,institutes,policy makers,and politicians also talking about life skills. They consider that “We should not give the only a text book knowledge to our child, we should provide them all skills which required for excellent life .If you want to say say I am human or we are social animals then you must acquire the skills which defined by the WHO.These are known as communication,critical thinking, creativity, self-awareness, decision making, problem solving,empathy, interpersonal relationship ,these all require for coping with stress and coping with emotions.This paper is focus based on literature reviews,how this skills are nurtured not only our education system overall human life. Along with trying to focus life skill policy and practices.

scholarly journals Analyzing the Research Evolution in Response to COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Weirong Li ◽  
Kai Sun ◽  
Yunqiang Zhu ◽  
Jia Song ◽  
Jie Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Growth Trend ◽  
Related Research ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Cyclical Trend ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Number Of Authors

In order to understand how these studies are evolving to respond to COVID-19 and to facilitate the containment of COVID-19, this paper accurately extracted the spatial and topic information from the metadata of papers related to COVID-19 using text mining techniques, and with the extracted information, the research evolution was analyzed from the temporal, spatial, and topic perspectives. From a temporal view, in the three months after the emergence of COVID-19, the number of published papers showed an obvious growth trend, and it showed a relatively stable cyclical trend in the later period, which is basically consistent with the development of COVID-19. Spatially, most of the authors who participated in related research are concentrated in the United States, China, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, India, and France. At the same time, with the continuous spread of COVID-19 in the world, the distribution of the number of authors has gradually expanded, showing to be correlated with the severity of COVID-19 at a spatial scale. From the perspective of topic, the early stage of COVID-19 emergence, the related research mainly focused on the origin and gene identification of the virus. After the emergence of the pandemic, studies related to the diagnosis and analysis of psychological health, personal security, and violent conflict are added. Meanwhile, some categories are most closely related to the control and prevention of the epidemic, such as pathology analysis, diagnosis, and treatment; epidemic situation and coping strategies; and prediction and assessment of epidemic situation. In most time periods, the majority of studies focused on these three categories.

scholarly journals Protective Factors against Emergency Stress and Burnout in Healthcare and Emergency Workers during Second Wave of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Monia Vagni ◽  
Tiziana Maiorano ◽  
Valeria Giostra ◽  
Daniela Pajardi
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Total Stress ◽  
Emergency Workers ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Reducing Stress ◽  
Second Wave

Working as healthcare workers (HCWs) and emergency workers (EWs) during the first wave of COVID-19 has been associated with high levels of stress and burnout, while hardiness, coping strategies and resilience have emerged as protective factors. No studies have so far investigated these psychological factors during the second wave. We aimed to verify the trend of stress levels, burnout, coping strategies and resilience during the pandemic in Italian healthcare and emergency workers by comparing a first sample recruited from the first COVID-19 wave (N = 240) with a second sample relating to the second wave (N = 260). Through an online platform we administered questionnaires to measure stress, burnout, resilience, hardiness and coping strategies. The results showed that in the two waves the total stress levels of HCWs and EWs did not differ, while the physical stress and hardiness scores in the second wave were greater. No differences were found in the coping strategies used. An analysis of burnout levels in the second wave sample found that stress showed a high predictive power in the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization scales. Hardiness and resilience emerged as protective factors in reducing stress. The implications for the need to provide support and to improve hardiness for HCWs and EWs are discussed.

scholarly journals Shifting from Village-Based Networks to Locally Generated Networks: Undocumented Mexican Agricultural Workers Who Use/Used Hard Drugs

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Keith V. Bletzer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Agricultural Workers ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Childhood Difficulties ◽  
Hard Drugs

Hardships that face transmigrants working in agriculture include the potential for drug use. Reliant on village-based networks that facilitate border crossing and developing a plan for a destination within this country, transmigrants who try new drugs/alcohol and/or continue on accustomed drugs/alcohol are facilitated in these endeavors through locally generated networks as alternative forms of access and support. Seven cases of undocumented men from Mexico are reviewed to show how use of illicit drugs is minimally affected by economic success and time in the United States, or village-based networks that first facilitated entry into this country. Prior conditions, especially childhood difficulties and search for socioeconomic autonomy, precipitate new and/or continuing drug use within the United States on this side of the border, where both forms of drug use are facilitated by locally generated networks.

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