scholarly journals Positive Orientation and Strategies for Coping with Stress as Predictors of Professional Burnout among Polish Nurses

Author(s):  
Ewa Kupcewicz ◽  
Marcin Jóźwik

Background: A psychological resource, positive orientation, may moderate stress and protect nurses from burnout. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of positive orientation and stress-coping strategies in predicting professional burnout among Polish nurses. Methods: A total of 1806 nurses employed in 23 hospitals in northeastern Poland participated in the study. The study used a standardized Positive Orientation Scale, Mini-COPE, and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. Results: On the stenographic scale, 21.8% of nurses had high levels of positive orientation, 46.8% were average, and 31.9% had low positive orientation. A total of 21.1% of respondents reported personal burnout. Most nurses reported work-related burnout (27%) and burnout in contacts with patients (28.4%) With increasing levels of positive orientation, nurses more often used adaptive strategies that focus on a problem and emotions. Personal burnout accounted for 16% of the variance of the dependent variable (β = −0.32; R2 = 0.16), which was slightly lower than work-related burnout (10% (β = −0.23; R2 = 0.10)), and burnout in contacts with patients (9% (β = −0.22; R2 = 0.09)). Conclusion: The reduced level of positive orientation proved to be the main determinant of the professional burnout of Polish nurses. Burnout-prophylactic programs should be geared towards developing individual psychological resources, including positive orientation and the acquisition of effective stress-coping skills.

Psihologija ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-185
Author(s):  
Jasminka Markovic ◽  
Jelena Srdanovic-Maras ◽  
Valentina Sobot ◽  
Svetlana Ivanovic-Kovacevic ◽  
Sladjana Martinovic-Mitrovic

Our study included 30 pairs of siblings aged 12-18 years; one sibling with and one without conduct disorder in each pair. The aim of the study was to assess individual characteristics of those siblings, i.e. to determine differences in psychological characteristics of the siblings with regard to locus of control, stress coping strategies and frequency and structure of behavioral problems and emotions. The results suggested significant differences in individual characteristics of children with conduct disorder and their healthy siblings. These results mainly confirm previous results of foreign research on a sample of our population. Exception of findings was related to strategies for coping with stress: religious behavior that didn?t turn out as a protective factor and avoiding confrontation and withdrawal which are shown as a protective factor. These results suggest the importance of individual psychological characteristics for the occurrence of conduct disorders and have implications in therapy and in preventive work with adolescents.


Anatolia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sampson Wireko-Gyebi ◽  
George Kwame Adu-Frimpong ◽  
Rejoice Selorm Ametepeh

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 1320-1336
Author(s):  
Bedri Yavuz Hatunoglu

The purpose of this study is to examine university students' strategies for coping with stress in terms of various variables. The study was carried out with 215 girls, 86 boys and 301 people studying at Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University in the 2019-2020 academic year. According to the research findings; It was found that students resort to social support, which does not show a desperate approach to the events in which they are more optimistic and confident in their strategies to deal with stress. It has been observed that students have positive behaviors in their strategies to cope with stress, their irrational beliefs and personal control of university students and their thoughts about being externally supervised, and especially believing in luck and striving, are related to their styles of coping with stress. Opinions differed between university students' genders and the faculty variables they studied. Keywords: Stress, Stress Coping, Stress Coping Strategy, University students,


Author(s):  
Steffen Barra ◽  
Andreas Grub ◽  
Michael Roesler ◽  
Petra Retz-Junginger ◽  
Florence Philipp ◽  
...  

AbstractAttention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is commonly accompanied by functional impairments within personal, professional, and social context as well as further psychological distress. The role of perceived stress has been examined in this regard, although little is known about the influence of stress coping strategies. We examined the dynamics between ADHD symptomatology, stress coping strategies, and life impairments in a sample of 230 clinical and non-clinical adult individuals. ADHD was associated with low probability of choosing adaptive but high probability of implementing maladaptive stress coping strategies as well as with increased life impairments. Adaptive stress coping showed little effects beyond the associations between ADHD and life impairments, whereas some maladaptive coping strategies increased current life impairments over and above the effects of ADHD and further psychological distress. The present findings emphasize the need of professional support in adults with ADHD and the necessity to include stress coping strategies in respective treatment approaches aimed at reducing life impairments.


2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Alina Deluga ◽  
Beata Dobrowolska ◽  
Krzysztof Jurek ◽  
Grzegorz Nowicki ◽  
Barbara Ślusarska

AbstractIntroduction. Spirituality has a multi-dimensional nature which influences the professional activities of nurses in a caring profession.Aim. Identifying selected determinants of spirituality among nurses and their relationship with socio-demographic factors.Material and methods. Research was conducted in 2018 on 144 nurses. All of the respondents were active in their profession. The research was made with diagnostic survey method using standardized research tools, including a Self-Description Questionnaire (SDQ), the Spiritual Transcendence Scale (STS), and the Brief Religious Coping (RCOPE) questionnaire, (BR).Results. It was established that age and professional seniority positively correlate with Religious Attitude (SDQ), p<0.05; Transcendence Proper (STS), p<0.01; and with positive religious stress-coping strategies (BR), p<0.01. It shows that a declaration of relationship to faith positively correlates with the subscales of the questionnaire (SDQ), i.e. Religious Attitude (r=0.247, p<0.01), Ethical sensitivity (rho=0.230, p<0.01), and Harmony (r=0.218, p<0.05). Moreover, a strong correlation was confirmed with Transcendence Proper (STS), r=0.40, p<0.01, and with positive religious strategies for coping with stress (BR), r=0.505, p<0.01, and declared relationship to faith.Conclusions. The dimensions of spirituality are significantly related to age, seniority, declaration of attitude to faith, and positive religious stress-coping strategies. Predictors of spirituality among nurses are place of residence, spiritual openness and negative religious stress-coping strategies.


2020 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Cywińska

Stress is an integral part of our lives. It also applies to our childhood. That is why it is so important to know how children cope with stress (how they learn coping strategies) and to equip them with the skill set to cope constructively with stressful situations throughout life. This article describes strategies for coping with stress that are characteristic for children at the end of early school education. They have been identified in the course of my own research aimed at characterizing child stress and relate to a fragment of research activities aimed at 8- and 9-year-old children. The research established that in some children the developmental process of coping with stress has started: children look for, investigate, and think how to cope with difficulties. In this struggle, however, they focus on people ho could be a source of support for them in coping with stressful situations. Among children’s stress coping strategies, an important role is also played by emotionally focused strategies, which are aimed at reducing negative emotions and arousing positive emotions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
Isnaeni Rofiqoch ◽  
Sawitri Dewi ◽  
Diah Atmarina Yuliani

Pregnancy is a time of determining the welfare and development of the fetus in the womb. During pregnancy many women experience psychological changes, so a method is needed to reduce the problems that arise during the pregnancy process, this method is called a coping strategy. The purpose of this study was to identify coping strategies for stress in pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic in the South Purwokerto Community Health Center, Banyumas Regency. This research is a qualitative research with a phenomenological approach. The data collection method in this research is carried out by in-depth interviews. This research is expected to be able to dig up information about what psychological problems are faced by pregnant women and how they solve the problems faced during the covid 19 pandemic. The main informant in the meantime is mother pregnant, supporting informants are midwives and family members (husband, mother or sibling) as triangulation. The results of this study stress coping strategies during pregnancy are needed to reduce problems during pregnancy. This strategy for coping with stress during pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic is carried out with the mechanism of Emotional Focused Coping and Problem Facus Coping. Although the Emotional Focused Coping mechanism is more dominantly used by pregnant women because pregnant women are women where women prioritize feelings over logic.


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