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Plenty, Stephanie; Östberg, Viveca; Modin, Bitte – School Psychology International, 2015
This study examined how psychosocial conditions at school are associated with prosocial behaviour, a key indicator of positive mental health. Participants were 3,652 Swedish Grade 9 students from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study. Structural equation modelling demonstrated that students who experience more manageable school…
Descriptors: Role, Adolescents, Prosocial Behavior, Mental Health
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Melin, Marika; Astvik, Wanja; Bernhard-Oettel, Claudia – Quality in Higher Education, 2014
This study investigates the relationship between the work conditions in higher education work settings, the academic staff's strategies for handling excessive workload and impact on well-being and work-life balance. The results show that there is a risk that staff in academic work places will start using compensatory coping strategies to deal with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teaching Conditions, Faculty Workload
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Jutengren, Goran; Kerr, Margaret; Stattin, Hakan – Journal of School Psychology, 2011
The predictive effects of peer victimization and harsh parenting on deliberate self-harm were examined. As derived from the experiential avoidance model, the study also tested whether these links were moderated by individual self-regulation approaches. Data were collected at two points in time from 880 junior high school students (mean age =…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Child Rearing, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Starrin, Bengt; Aslund, Cecilia; Nilsson, Kent W. – Social Indicators Research, 2009
The aim of the study was to test the Finances-Shame model and its explanatory power regarding the prevalence of psychosocial ill-health. The Finances-Shame model postulates that (i) the greater the financial stress and the more experiences of having been shamed, the greater the risk for psychosocial ill-health, (ii) the lesser the financial stress…
Descriptors: Risk, Social Indicators, Stress Variables, Models
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Karasek, Robert A., Jr. – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1979
Analysis of data from the United States and Sweden indicate that the combination of low decision latitude and heavy job demands is associated with mental strain and with job dissatisfaction. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction
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Hagekull, Berit; Bohlin, Gunilla – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1990
Descriptions of temperament were more predictive of maternal adaptation than were mothers' expectations of infant behavior. Infant temperament was more important for multiparous mothers than for first-time mothers. Predicted interactive effects were not found. (RH)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Emotional Experience, Expectation
Hagekull, Berit; Bohlin, Gunilla – 1989
In an effort to explain early maternal adaptation, a longitudinal study aimed to delineate the relative importance of maternal expectations for infant behavior, maternal descriptions of infant temperament, and the interaction of these variables, as proposed in the Goodness of Fit model. Infant temperament was considered an environmental variable,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Expectation, Foreign Countries