Depression and Anxiety Are Associated with Physical Performance in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Retrospective Observational Study

Background: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) combined with stress management training has been shown to be associated with fewer clinical events than CR alone. However, there have been no reports on the associations of CR with the psychological condition and detailed physical activities evaluated on the same day. Method: One hundred outpatients who participated in a CR program were graded on the hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS). We divided them into a high HADS group (n = 32) and a normal HADS group (n = 68) and investigated by whole patients, ischemic heart disease (IHD) patients, and heart failure patients. Results: Overall, the patient age was 70.5 ± 9.6 years, the percentage of males was 73.0%, and the body mass index was 23.4 (21.7–26.0) kg/m2. In the high HADS group, overall functional mobility was poor and the distance in a two-minute walking test was short. Especially in IHD patients, the high HADS group showed high fat mass in body composition and low exercise tolerance and ventilator equivalents in cardiopulmonary exercise test. Conclusions: Depression and anxiety involved poor physical performance in CR outpatients and particularly involved low exercise tolerance in IHD patients. To evaluate accurate physical performance, it is necessary to investigate psychological condition.

“East West, Home’s Best”: Feminist Politics of Sue Townsend in Bazaar and Rummage

This paper discusses the social reasons for agoraphobia as a psychological disorder as observed in the women characters of British playwright Sue Townsend’s issue-based play Bazaar and Rummage (1982). The depiction of three agoraphobic women in a context characterised by patriarchal dominion constitutes the core of Townsend’s play. Although their problematic condition is presented rather comically, from their accounts, it seems apt to argue that societal oppression is the reason for their longlasting seclusion and constant fear of the outside world. The play offers a rummage sale as an opportunity for women to step outside and conquer their fear. Accordingly, in terms of presenting the psychological condition of women characters and associating the possible solution to their problem with a market occasion, Townsend’s play illustrates an example of feminist criticism. In this study, the play’s analysis is based on the 1980s context dominated by Thatcher politics, and Townsend’s portrayal of agoraphobia is discussed as a criticism of her society in which patriarchal hegemony plays a central role in women’s forced confinement.

KESIAPAN GURU DALAM MENGIMPLEMENTASIKAN BUKU PANDUAN PEMBELAJARAN PASCA BENCANA

Disasters that occur in an area result in the interruption of the learning process there frequently. It is caused by the damage to facilities and infrastructure or the psychological condition of the affected community that has not recovered. It becomes the background of the importance of post-disaster learning guidebooks. This study aims to see the readiness of teachers in implementing post-disaster learning. A total of 71 teachers selected using purposive sampling participated in filling out the teacher readiness questionnaire. On the one hand, the results showed that most teachers were ready to implement the learning guidebook. On the other hand, teachers should consider readiness factors more specifically because these are supposed to improve their performance in post-disaster learning.AbstrakBencana yang terjadi di suatu daerah seringkali mengakibatkan terputusnya proses pembelajaran di lokasi tersebut. Hal ini disebabkan baik karena rusaknya fasilitas sarana dan prasarana atau belum membaiknya kondisi psikologis orang-orang yang terdampak. Hal inilah yang kemudian melatar-belakangi pentingnya buku panduan pembelajaran pasca bencana. Studi ini bertujuan untuk melihat kesiapan guru dalam mengimplementasikan pem-belajaran pasca bencana. Sebanyak 71 orang guru yang dipilih dengan menggunakan purposive sampling berpartisipasi dalam pengisian kuesioner kesiapan guru. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa mayoritas guru sudah siap untuk meng-implementasikan buku panduan pembelajaran tersebut. Di sisi lain, guru harus mempertimbangkan faktor-faktor kesiapan secara lebih khusus karena ini dianggap akan meningkatkan performa mereka dalam melakukan pembelajaran pasca bencana.

Parents' Psychological Aspect in Caring for the Child During COVID-19 Pandemic

Introduction: COVID-19 is unprecedented, especially for parents with children aged 2-12 years old who are prone to infection due to their activities. The psychological condition of parents will be affected as they are worried about their children being infected with COVID-19.Methods: This study aims to identify and analyse the psychological aspects of parents who are caring for children during the COVID-19 pandemic.Results: The results showed that as many as 236 parents (80.9%) showed an emotional anxiety response. The social reaction to the COVID-19 situation was more likely to be a positive response (73.8%) rather than a negative response.Conclusion: The reactions that occur in parents who have pre-school and school-aged children regarding the COVID-19 were anxiety and worry. Reactions arise due to the information obtained being less verifiable, namely social media.

THE EFFECT OF TEST ANXIETY IN IX CLASS STUDENTS

Test anxiety is a Psychological condition that the students face anxiety and stress in test performance. Test performance of the students leads to poor achievement, and phobia related to the examination. The researcher has chosen purposive sampling technique for the study with sample of 100 students (50 males and 50 females) studying IX class. The data collected from the students and t- test formulated for the analysis of data. The results show that signicant difference between female and male students on test anxiety.

Psychological Analysis of Emily Grierson in Short Story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Literature is something that always accompanied our life, they may be fiction or non-fiction. However, both have the same intrinsic and extrinsic elements. One of the intrinsic elements is character. The characters in a story are an intriguing thing, each characters have different personality. The personality created by internal and external factors that influence the psychological condition of the character. This study entitled Psychological Analysis of Emily Grierson in Short Story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, mainly discuss about Emily psychological condition. Specifically, on her living environment’s influence on her psychology also her psychological reason in killing and keeping her lover and/or husband. This study used a descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the collected data. The theory used is theories of personality from Feist & Feist (2008), specifically Karen Horney’s psychoanalytic social theory. There is also historical background theory used to determines the living environment’s influence. The result of this study is Emily living environment greatly influence her psychological condition, especially due to her identity as a fallen aristocratic lady and her family’s lack of man to protect her. As for her reason for killing and keeping her lover and/or husband, it is because of her fear being alone and needing other people in her live that she approaches him and end in her feeling that he is hers. Thus, him leaving her, end in the tragedy of him losing his life and being keep as a means to satisfy her possessive desire.

Elderly Psychological Conditions in the Nursing Home Tresna Werdha (Pstw): A Study Descriptive Riau and West Sumatra Indonesia

The aspects of emotion, memory, motivation and independence are psychological conditions that are often experienced by the elderly who live in nursing homes. experienced by the elderly who are in the nursing home environment. This study aims to describe the psychological condition of the elderly in the Husnul Khotimah Pekanbaru social home for 35 elderly and 45 elderly Sabai Nan Aluih Pariaman nursing home. This research is a descriptive survey. The research subjects were 80 elderly who were taken with the total sampling technique. Data were collected using questionnaire sheets and descriptive analysis, this study shows that the psychological condition of the elderly which includes emotional aspects of the nursing home in the second category of the Husnul Khotimah nursing home is (69%) and the Sabai Nan Aluih nursing home is 73%.(80%) in the Husnul Khotimah nursing home and 69% in the good category in the Sabai Nan Aluih nursing home. Motivational aspectat both nursing homes is in the moderate category (51%) The independence aspect is in the good category (80%) in the Husnul Khotimah nursing home while the sufficient category is 67% in the Sabai Nan Aluih nursing home. Broadly speaking, the aspects of emotion, memory, motivation are good categories, category motivation is sufficient and the category independence is good at the Husnul Khotimah nursing home and sufficient at the Sabai Nan Aluih nursing home.

Burned-out Fathers and Untold Stories: Mixed Methods Investigation of the Demands and Resources of Finnish Fathers

Although parental burnout has been acknowledged as a unique psychological condition that can have serious consequences to families, most research so far has been conducted with mothers. The present study investigated how the descriptions of parenting-related demands and resources differ between burned-out and non-burned-out fathers. Furthermore, we examined what kinds of support or services fathers need to increase their wellbeing as parents. The participants were 10 fathers with the highest level of parental burnout symptoms, and 14 fathers with the lowest level of parental burnout symptom, out of 158 fathers who answered the questionnaire. The qualitative open-ended answers were analyzed using hierarchical thematic analysis and the accounts of the burned-out and non-burned-out fathers were compared. Furthermore, quantitative answers regarding parenting-related stress-factors were compared between the two groups. The results showed that burned-out fathers experienced more parenting-related demands than the non-burned-out fathers and reported needing financial, practical, and social support. Compared to non-burned-out fathers, the burned-out fathers reported more often being dissatisfied with the society, having difficulties integrating work and family life, and being strained by everyday life with children. The reported resources were similar with both burned-out and non-burned-out fathers and consisted mainly of happiness regarding their children. The results can be used in generating services and support for fathers to increase their wellbeing as parents.

KONSEP MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF ALQURAN

Media comes from Latin which means intermediary. This meaning can be said as a communication tool used to carry information from a source to a recipient. The position of learning media by them is the process of learning media is a communication process and takes place in a system, then learning media occupies an important position as one of the components of the learning system. In this case, it will be related to the accuracy of the teacher in understanding the psychological condition of students, objectives, methods and completeness of aids. All of this belongs to the form of teaching either directly or indirectly. Al-Qur'anul Karim is the greatest miracle of Islam and its miracles always strengthen knowledge, He was revealed by Allah to His Messenger, Muhammad SAW to bring people out of a dark atmosphere into the light and guide them to the straight path.

Pengaruh Stres Kerja Dan Kepuasan Kerja Terhadap Komitmen Organisasi

One of the things that leaders must pay attention to is the employee's organizational commitment. Therefore, companies need professional and trained employees to be able to deal with various work pressures. One of the factors that influence organizational commitment is job stress and job satisfaction. Work stress is a tension that causes an imbalance in the psychological condition of workers. Job satisfaction is an employee's attitude towards aspects of work that can lead to pleasant or unpleasant feelings. By improving the work stress system and employee job satisfaction is the key to success in maintaining employee organizational commitment. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of job stress on organizational commitment and to determine the effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment. The sample size used in this study was 40 respondents and this study used SmartPLS 3. With the results of the study, work stress had a negative and insignificant effect on organizational commitment and job satisfaction had a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment. Salah satu hal yang harus diperhatikan oleh pemimpin adalah mengenai komitmen organisasi karyawan. Oleh karena itu, perusahaan memerlukan karyawan yang profesional dan terlatih agar dapat menghadapi berbagai tekanan kerja. Salah satu faktor yang mempengaruhi komitmen organisasi yaitu stres kerja dan kepuasan kerja. Stres kerja merupakan suatu ketegangan yang mengakibatkan suatu ketidakseimbangan pada kondisi psikologis pekerja. Kepuasan kerja merupakan sikap karyawan terhadap aspek-aspek pekerjaan yang dapat menimbulkan perasaan menyenangkan atau tidak menyenangkan. Dengan memperbaiki sistem stres kerja dan kepuasan kerja karyawan adalah kunci sukses menjaga komitmen organisasi karyawan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh stres kerja terhadap komitmen organisasi dan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kepuasan kerja terhadap komitmen organisasi. ukuran sampel yang digunakan pada penelitian ini sebanyak 40 responden dan penelitian ini menggunakan SmartPLS 3. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa stres kerja berpengaruh negatif dan tidak signifikan terhadap komitmen organisasi dan kepuasan kerja berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap komitmen organisasi.