scholarly journals Coping Strategies of Stress Adopted by Female Employees with Children in the University of Cape Coast: Implications for Management Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-108
Author(s):  
Regina Sally Maison ◽  
Grace Yeboah ◽  
Grace Aba Mensah ◽  
Mabel Anane
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Strategy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Household Chores ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
The University ◽  
Different Sources

The study investigated the coping strategies of stress adopted by female employees with children in the university of Cape Coast. A descriptive study was the designed employed in carrying out the study. Two hundred and four (204) respondents were sampled from 431 female employees with children to answer a set of questionnaires. The results revealed that demands from husbands and thinking of promotional issues were some of the stressors that confronted the respondents. The major effects of stress among the respondents were their inability to plan well and lack of concentration on household chores. The result showed that the most prevailing coping strategy adopted by the respondents was engaging in conversation with friends and family members as well as getting assistance from colleagues. It was concluded that female employees with children in the University of Cape Coast go through stress, which emanates from different sources. Some of the recommendations were that management of the University must educate their employees on and appropriate strategies to cope with their stress. That could be done by management through seminars conferences, workshops on coping strategies of stress.

scholarly journals Stress Adaptation Among Family of Adolescent with Substance Use Disorders: Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (F) ◽  
pp. 335-341
Author(s):  
Heru Subekti ◽  
Siswanto Agus Wilopo ◽  
Ibrahim Rahmat
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Coping Strategy ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Strategy Adaptation ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND: Families of an adolescent with substance use disorders report significant burden and stress. Adequate coping strategies can modify the impact of stressful situations and increase family function. AIM: The objective of the study was to systematically review literature related to the coping strategies and adaptations used by family members of the adolescent with substance use disorders to manage their stress. METHODS: We conducted electronic searches using MEDLINE (PubMed), EBSCO, databases to select studies on family stress, and coping strategies that were published from January 2000 to December 2020. The search terms were family, parent, father, mother, coping, caregiver, strategy, adaptation, adolescent, and substance use disorders. RESULTS: We found 961 articles. After application of exclusion criteria and exclusion of redundant references, 10 articles were thematically analyzed. The studies were organized into five categories: Engaged, tolerance, withdrawal, problem-focused, and emotion-focused coping strategies. The family members felt devastated by the incidents of violence and aggressive outbursts, and felt that they failed as parents. As a result, the parents felt very isolated from other family members and friends, and ashamed of their children’s behavior. Most families used problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies in different combinations. CONCLUSION: The identified studies show that the use of emotional focus coping is the coping strategy most often done by families. Problem focus coping involved family efforts to find sources of information and seek treatment services as a mechanism for adaptive coping strategy. However, a mixed methods study is still needed that clearly illustrates the types of coping strategies used in various cultural perspectives and social status.

scholarly journals Challenges and coping strategies of student mothers of ‘ucc’ college of distance education: The case of the Cape Coast centre

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Akomaning ◽  
Abigail Boatemaa Osafo
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Academic Challenges ◽  
Student Mothers ◽  
Counselling Services ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The University ◽  
Descriptive Survey

Student mothers in distance education programmes in Ghana have to combine family roles with work and academic pursuits. Therefore, this study sought to find out the challenges and coping strategies of student mothers at the College of Distance Education (CoDE) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Cape Coast Centre. In this descriptive survey, a questionnaire was used to collect data from 175 conveniently sampled student mothers attending classes at Cape Coast Centre, CoDE, UCC. The data collected was analysed using frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations. The findings from the data gleaned that majority of student mothers (a minimum of 71%) performed a lot of laborious non-academic activities daily in their homes and the combination of these roles with their academics pose a negative high effect on their family lives and academics. Unfortunately, the coping strategies they employed were, to a large extent, ineffective. Thus, student mothers have inevitable academic impediments that emanate from the non-academic activities they perform at home, posing challenges to their academic pursuit. Therefore, CoDE, in collaboration with the Counselling Unit of the University of Cape Coast should provide counselling services to these student mothers to be aware of the academic challenges and ways to effectively navigate these challenges to be successful.

scholarly journals Stress-adaptation among Family of Adolescent with Substance Misuse: Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (F) ◽  
pp. 474-480
Author(s):  
Heru Subekti ◽  
Ibrahim Rahmat ◽  
Siswanto Wilopo
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Coping Strategy ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Strategy Adaptation ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
Significant Burden ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND: Families of an adolescent with substance use disorders report significant burden and stress. Adequate coping strategies can modify the impact of stressful situations and increase family function. AIM: The aim of the study was to systematically review the literature related to the coping strategies and adaptations used by family members of the adolescent with substance use disorders to manage their stress. METHODS: We conducted electronic searches using MEDLINE (PubMed), EBSCO, databases to select studies on family stress, and coping strategies that were published from January 2000 to December 2020. The search terms were family, parent, father, mother, coping, caregiver, strategy, adaptation, adolescent, and substance use disorders. RESULTS: We found 961 articles. After application of exclusion criteria and exclusion of redundant references, ten articles were thematically analyzed. The studies were organized into five categories: Engaged, tolerance, withdrawal, problem-focused, and emotion-focused coping strategies. The family members felt devastated by the incidents of violence and aggressive outbursts, and felt they failed as parents. As a result, the parents felt very isolated from other family members and friends, and ashamed of their children’s behavior. Most families used problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies in different combinations. CONCLUSION: The identified studies show that the use of emotional focus coping is the coping strategy most often done by families. Problem focus coping involved family efforts to find sources of information and seek treatment services as a mechanism for adaptive coping strategy. However, a mixed methods study is still needed that clearly illustrates the types of coping strategies used in various cultural perspectives and social status.

scholarly journals Strategies for coping with family members of patients with mental disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Alcalá Pompeo ◽  
Arélica de Carvalho ◽  
Aline Morgado Olive ◽  
Maria da Graça Girade Souza ◽  
Sueli Aparecida Frari Galera
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Mothers And Fathers

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the coping strategies of family members of patients with mental disorders and relate them to family member sociodemographic variables and to the patient's clinical variables. Method: this was a descriptive study conducted at a psychiatric hospital in the interior of the state of São Paulo, with 40 family members of hospitalized patients over the age of 18, and who followed the patient before and during hospitalization. We used tools to characterize the subjects and the Folkman and Lazarus Inventory of Coping Strategies. Results: the coping strategies most often used by family members were social support and problem solving. Mothers and fathers used more functional strategies (self-control p=0.037, positive reappraisal p=0.037, and social support p=0,021). We found no significant differences between the strategies and other variables examined. Conclusion: despite the suffering resulting from the illness of a dear one, family members make more use of functional strategies, allowing them to cope with adversities in a more well-adjusted way.

scholarly journals Struggles and Coping Strategies of Student Mothers at the University of Cape Coast Distance Education, Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2484-2494
Author(s):  
Joyce Kwakyewaa Dankyi ◽  
Lydia Aframea Dankyi ◽  
Vincent Mensah Minadzi
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Student Mothers ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Coping strategies of a rape victim as reflected in Chanel Miller’s Know My Name memoir

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
Raudya Maghfira ◽  
Malikhatul Lailiyah
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Strategy ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Rape Victim ◽  
Rape Victims ◽  
Definition Of

Memoir is a literary work genre that belongs to the subgenre of autobiography. Most of the memoir showcases the writer’s particular moment of life, rather than the reels of their whole life. Chanel Miller, for example, showcases her experience during the aftermath of rape in her memoir, Know My Name. Various definition of rape has one thing in common, which rape is something that happens despite the lack of consensus and that creates stress after it happens. Stressful encounters require a coping strategy to conquer them. This study tries to analyze coping strategies on Know My Name memoir because it is due time for us to recognize how rape has influenced the victim’s life to provide better care both physical and psychological wise for rape victims and, even better, to formulate better law to protect the victim. Using descriptive study, the important features were found as Channel Miller’s emotional reactions to choose a way out of the problem.

Comparative study of collection management practices of academic libraries

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 66-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Kwame Filson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Collection Management ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out the similarities and differences in collection management practices of the main libraries of the University of Cape Coast and the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a qualitative approach in considering the research problem and also used the case study to collect data. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Findings Some of the results highlighted are: both libraries had sections responsible for collection management practices, the collection management practices carried out by both libraries were almost similar, lack of adequate professional staff, lack of adequate funds and unavailability of Collection Management Policy were some of the challenges. Research limitations/implications The study focussed on the activities performed by the various sections directly involved in the collection management practices and excludes administrative practices. Practical implications In order to make any library functional, collection management should be a shared responsibility of all the sections of the library and that enough money is required to link the staff and the information resources in the library together. Social implications All stakeholders of libraries must play their role to make academic libraries functional. Originality/value The study provides insight into the collection development activities undertaken by the libraries of the only public academic institutions purposely build by the Government of Ghana to train graduate teachers for Basic and Second-Cycle institutions in Ghana.

2011 BEEF FORAGE SURVEY RESULTS

EDIS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja C. Crawford ◽  
Christa L. Kirby ◽  
Tycee Prevatt ◽  
Brent A. Sellers ◽  
Maria L. Silveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
South Florida ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Development Unit ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
County Extension ◽  
Ranch Management ◽  
The University

The University of Florida / IFAS South Florida Beef Forage Program (SFBFP) is composed of county Extension faculty and state specialists.  The members, in conjunction with the UF/IFAS Program Evaluation and Organizational Development unit, created a survey in 1982, which is used to evaluate ranch management practices.  The survey is updated and distributed every 5 years to ranchers in 14 South Florida counties: Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Okeechobee, Polk, and Sarasota.  The responses are anonymous.  

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