scholarly journals Exploring Occupational Psychological Health Indicators Among Construction Employees: A Study In Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve Fordjour ◽  
Albert Chan
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Health Indicators

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Revised Sense of Coherence Scale

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahel Bachem ◽  
Andreas Maercker
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Structure Stability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Reliability Factor ◽  
Two Samples

Abstract. The present study introduces a revised Sense of Coherence (SOC) scale, a new conceptualization and operationalization of the resilience indicator SOC. It outlines the scale development and aims for testing its reliability, factor structure, and validity. Literature on Antonovsky’s SOC (SOC-A) was critically reviewed to identify needs for improving the scale. The scale was investigated in two samples. Sample 1 consisted of 334 bereaved participants, Sample 2 of 157 healthy controls. The revised SOC Scale, SOC-A, and theoretically relevant questionnaires were applied. Explorative and confirmatory factor analyses established a three-factor structure in both samples. The revised SOC Scale showed significant but discriminative associations with related constructs, including self-efficacy, posttraumatic growth, and neuroticism. The revised measure was significantly associated with psychological health indicators, including persistent grief, depression, and anxiety, but not to the extent as the previous SOC-A. Stability over time was sufficient. The study provides psychometric support for the revised SOC conceptualization and scale. It has several advantages over the previous SOC-A scale (unique variance, distinct factor structure, stability). The scale could be used for clinical and health psychological testing or research into the growing field of studies on resilience over the life span.

scholarly journals Psychological Health Assessment Model of Enterprise Employees Based on DNN Technology

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Xin Li
Keyword(s):  
Network Model ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Economic Market ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Complex Test

All enterprises gradually recognise the importance of employees’ healthy psychology to business activities in order to improve their own economic level and occupy a certain leading position in the economic market. The main factors affecting employees’ psychological health are used as input samples in this paper, and a network model of enterprise employees’ psychological health prediction based on DNN is developed. To form a specific set, the psychological health indicators are separated from the complex test items. The key influencing factors in psychological health assessment are chosen as input vectors, and the DNN algorithm’s output results are obtained, analysed, and compared. Following sample training, the artificial NN’s error between predicted and measured values is only 3.55 percent, achieving the desired effect. The DNN principle is used in this paper to create a mathematical prediction network model based on an analysis of psychological factors affecting employees in businesses. The calculation of the final result of the prediction system is simple and flexible when the parameters of the NN are changed, and the network model’s prediction efficiency and accuracy are greatly improved.

Language and the Inner

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ömer Faruk Şimşek
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Psychometric Tool

The nexus between language and experience addresses the distinct, qualitative aspects of human experience or qualia. These qualitative aspects are important because, when people perceive a disconnect between language and experience, consequences for psychological health may follow. The research reported herein aimed to develop and validate a psychometric tool to assess perceptions of connection between language and experience. Six studies were conducted to confirm the factor structure of the Beliefs About the Functions of Language scale and to assess its construct validity. Two factors were derived and validated (viz. epistemic and communicative), which were shown to relate to mental health indicators in expected ways.

Foreign live-in domestic workers as caretakers of older Kuwaiti men and women: socio-demographic and health correlates

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1008-1029 ◽  
Author(s):  
NASRA SHAH ◽  
HANAN BADR ◽  
MAKHDOOM SHAH
Keyword(s):  
Family Member ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Domestic Worker ◽  
Age And Gender Differences ◽  
Demographic Correlates ◽  
And Gender

ABSTRACTAgeing of the population is posing new challenges for caretakers. This paper aims to examine: (a) age and gender differences in care provided by a domestic worker versus a family member in the performance of activities of daily living (ADL); (b) socio-demographic correlates of care during illness; and (c) self-reported physical, functional, and psychological health status in relation to care-giver. A cross-sectional household survey was conducted among 2,487 Kuwaiti nationals aged 50 years or older. This paper focuses on persons aged 70 or more. We found that domestic workers provided care to 28 per cent of men and 58 per cent of women who needed assistance with ADL; and to 14 per cent men and 51 per cent women during illness. These respondents ranked poorer on several health indicators and reported higher depressive symptoms score than those looked after by a family member. Logistic regression indicated that care by a domestic worker was approximately seven times more likely for women than men, about 10.8 times more likely for those without co-resident children compared with those who had three or more co-resident children, and 44 per cent less likely for the poorest compared with the richest persons. It appears that reliance on domestic workers is increasing and such reliance will remain necessary in the absence of culturally acceptable alternative institutional arrangements.

The double edge sword of John Henryism: Impact on patients’ health in the People’s Republic of China

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 2374-2387
Author(s):  
Emily A Vargas ◽  
Yidi Li ◽  
Ramaswami Mahalingham ◽  
Pan Hui ◽  
Grace Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
John Henryism ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Double Edge ◽  
Double Edge Sword ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
The Impact

The People’s Republic of China has experienced extraordinary economic growth, which is associated with increases in chronic health stressors. We examined the impact of John Henryism—a coping mechanism—on various health indicators in a sample of patients ( n = 642) in China. John Henryism significantly related to increased medical adherence [Formula: see text] and health-promotional behaviors [Formula: see text]. John Henryism predicted several indicators of psychological health through social support. John Henryism was also related to increased alcoholism [Formula: see text]. The findings highlight the complexity and paradoxical implications of John Henryism on health. Implications are discussed in relation to China’s epidemiological and age demographic shifts.

The Investigation of the Relationship between Narcissism, Perfectionism, Loneliness, Depression, Subjective and Psychological Well-being in a Sample of Transylvanian Hungarian and Romanian Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-63
Author(s):  
Éva Kállay
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Comparative Investigation ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Levels Of Functioning

"The last decades have witnessed a significant increase in several forms of human psychological malfunctioning, aspects that proved to significantly endanger healthy and efficient human adaptation. Mental health indicators (anxiety, depression, reduced levels of happiness), perfectionism, narcissism, and loneliness have significantly increased, despite the significant improvement of existent life-conditions. The market-based competition and reward system in the educational and professional spheres, as well as the perfectionistic expectations specific to the personal life impose high demands on the individual, which usually become sources of significant chronic stress, further impacting the individual’s quality of life (psychological and subjective well-being, loneliness). The comparative investigation of the above-mentioned variables in Transylvanian Hungarian and Transylvanian Romanian students would offer us the chance to compare these levels of functioning in two, culturally different samples. Our present study is a continuation and refinement of previous studies, and concentrates on the following major aims: (i) the investigation of the possible differences in narcissism, perfectionism, loneliness, depression, happiness, subjective and psychological well-being in Transylvanian Hungarian and Transylva¬nian Romanian first and second year students; (ii) the investigation of the association patterns between variables in both samples, and (iii) the examination of the role the studied variables play on the major indicators of mental and psychological health (depression and happiness) both in the united sample and on the two samples of students separately. The results of our investigation may be beneficial for the tailoring of future prevention and intervention programs that would target the enhancement of psychological adaptation of Transylvanian students Keywords: narcissism, perfectionism, loneliness, depression, subjective well-being, psychological well-being."

scholarly journals Quality of Life and Psychological Health Indicators in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project

2009 ◽  
Vol 64B (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. i30-i37 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Shiovitz-Ezra ◽  
S. Leitsch ◽  
J. Graber ◽  
A. Karraker
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Health Indicators

scholarly journals Features of the Time Perspective in Adolescents with Health Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Trofimova ◽  
Galina Geranyushkina ◽  
Svetlana Malakhayeva
Keyword(s):  
Life Events ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Future Activity ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Normal Health

The time prospective can be described as relation of a human being to his personal past, present and future. The time prospective determines the level of personal psychological health exercising influence upon self-efficiency of the human being, his readiness to overcome difficulties. A constructive solution of the identity crisis in adolescent age is not possible without understanding the dynamic changes and their connection with life events during various time periods. Solution of self-determination tasks, including those in terms of professional becoming presupposes the skills of setting prospective goals and of planning real steps in their implementation. The article examines the differences of perceiving time with the adolescents with health disabilities and the adolescents having normal health indicators. It analyses the inter-time ties, the order of priorities in time setups, the calendar periods of time prospective, the positive and negative motivational objects. The characteristics of adolescents with health disabilities depends on various indicators, and the determining indicator is the health defect which specifies the dependence of the individuals present and future activity.

scholarly journals Review Article Relationships between intuitive eating and health indicators: literature review

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 1757-1766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Van Dyke ◽  
Eric J Drinkwater
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Intuitive Eating ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Eating Behaviours ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional

AbstractObjectiveTo review the peer-reviewed literature on relationships between intuitive eating and health indicators and suggest areas of inquiry for future research. We define the fundamental principles of intuitive eating as: (i) eating when hungry; (ii) stopping eating when no longer hungry/full; and (iii) no restrictions on types of food eaten unless for medical reasons.DesignWe include articles cited by PubMed, PsycInfo and Science Direct published in peer-reviewed journals or theses that include ‘intuitive eating’ or related concepts in the title or abstract and that test relationships between intuitive eating and physical or mental health indicators.ResultsWe found twenty-six articles that met our criteria: seventeen cross-sectional survey studies and nine clinical studies, eight of which were randomised controlled trials. The cross-sectional surveys indicate that intuitive eating is negatively associated with BMI, positively associated with various psychological health indicators, and possibly positively associated with improved dietary intake and/or eating behaviours, but not associated with higher levels of physical activity. From the clinical studies, we conclude that the implementation of intuitive eating results in weight maintenance but perhaps not weight loss, improved psychological health, possibly improved physical health indicators other than BMI (e.g. blood pressure; cholesterol levels) and dietary intake and/or eating behaviours, but probably not higher levels of physical activity.ConclusionsResearch on intuitive eating has increased in recent years. Extant research demonstrates substantial and consistent associations between intuitive eating and both lower BMI and better psychological health. Additional research can add to the breadth and depth of these findings. The article concludes with several suggestions for future research.

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