A study on metaphors used by female teachers  to describe their work-related stresses and psychological exhaustion: reflecting on potential interventions

Kaviani, Hossein; Alshaer, Hanouf

doi:10.12740/app/109135

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“…The future anxiety is closely linked to pessimism, where a positive relationship found between the future anxiety and pessimism. (Alshaer & Kaviani, 2019) confirmed that human who worry about the future characterized by pessimism, introversion, the appearance of doubt and hesitation signs, the appearance of emotions for the slightest reason and to fall under the influence of those emotions, and the tendency towards complexity, disorder, and instability. The person also has negative expectations of all that the future holds and the inability to face this future, where fear of the future leads to fear of the present and makes the person falls into a state of negativity.…”

Section: Future Anxietymentioning

confidence: 58%

“…The result can be explained in light of the characteristics of female students, which represent manifestations of strength and in the same time it represents reasons of disorder. For example, female students are overly sensitive which means growing emotion in the different life situations that lead to more pressure and negatively affects the individual's behavior, and at the same time they can use it as a source of energy and enthusiasm (Alshaer & Kaviani, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The first symptom is stress and tiredness that occurs as a result of the body's attempt to face effects of ego depletion; from the one hand and the chemical changes that occur to prevent the depletion on the other hand. Second symptom is poor performance (Alshaer & Kaviani, 2019), third is difficulty of concentration, fourth is memory impairment (Derks, Van Mierlo & Schmitz, 2014), and the fifth symptom is lack of control over motives (Bolton, Harvey, Grawitch & Barber, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are many theories that tried to explain the ego depletion and each theory tried to explain it within the limits of its vision, and here a presentation for some of these theories, the cognitive theory explains the ego depletion in light of the depletion of energy sources needed to perform cognitive processes, and its depletion return to the involvement of cognitive processes that require self-intervention to guide, control, and adjust the workflow of operations, which lead to a decrease in the performance level of processes (Alshaer & Kaviani, 2019). The biological theory explained ego depletion, in term of "Amygdala Malfunction" which is a small area of the brain; near the center similar to an almond and responsible for the perception and organization of emotions by responding to the negative and positive incentives of emotions and feelings (Derks, Van Mierlo & Schmitz, 2014).…”

Section: Ego Depletionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pioneers of humanity theory believe that future anxiety arises when individuals can't give responses that lead to success in life situations and to satisfy social needs, which create conflicts among individuals and in turn lead to aggravate anxieties, particularly an anxiety from the future, and create feelings of dissatisfaction with the self (Alshaer & Kaviani, 2019). However, Behaviorists view the future anxiety as something that human learn from the environment through acquired behaviors, especially mismatched behaviors that individuals learn in childhood, therefore it embedded in them and become characteristics of their personalities, which will be reinforced by the circumstances and environment that children live in it, and continue with them and cause them to not align with themselves and their environments which lead to anxiety.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Ego Depletion and Its Relationship with the Future Anxiety among the University Female Students

ALHarbi¹,

Ibrahim²,

Al-Rababaah³

et al. 2020

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The study aims to identify the degree of ego depletion and future anxiety and the relationship between both of them among the university female students. Researchers relied on the descriptive correlation method and prepared an ego depletion and future anxiety scale, and implement it on the study sample that consists of (560) female students at the Princess Alia University College after ensuring the appropriateness of their Seikometric characteristics. The study results found a statistically significant positive correlation between the ego depletion and future anxiety among the study sample, and the degree of ego depletion and future anxiety came medium. Results also showed that ego depletion acts as a good predictor of the future anxiety. In light of these results the study recommended the school administrations to provide students with the study environment that challenges their capabilities and provide them with the psychological safety to deal successfully with the future anxiety.

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Section: Future Anxietymentioning

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ego Depletionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ego Depletionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Future Anxietymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Ego Depletion and Its Relationship with the Future Anxiety among the University Female Students

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Features of the profession loss crisis in older teachers

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Introduction. The relevance of the current research in the features of the profession loss crisis among older teachers is due to the need to develop the methods of psychological support for their professional development in the conditions of growing demands on the educational process.The aim of the study is to identify the features of the profession loss crisis among older teachers.In the course of the study, the authors put forward the following hypotheses. The features of the profession loss crisis include two scenarios, which are reflected in the psychological state of teachers and their attitude towards their own profession. The positive scenario is characterized by physical and psychological health, hardiness and psychological well-being, while the negative scenario is characterised by deterioration in physical and mental health, reduced hardiness and psychological well-being.Methodology and research methods. The methodological basis for the study was the concept of professional development by E. F. Zeer and E. E. Symaniuk, as well as the approaches to examining the psychological characteristics of the crisis of late age; psycho-aging changes at a later age; stages of professional development; features of experiencing crises. The study involved 956 teachers working in educational organisations of the Sverdlovsk region (58 men and 898 women). The average age of the respondents was 57.9 years. The features of the profession loss crisis were determined using the biographical method, which allowed the authors to consider the dynamic process of professional development and highlight the psychological characteristics of the crisis based on content analysis. The biographical questionnaire contained questions aimed at identifying general social and professional information, determining the characteristics of options, professional activities, retirement and plans for future life, as well as determining the success of a professional biography. The following methods were used: test of hardiness in the adaptation of E. N. Osin and E. I. Rasskazova; method of quality-of-life SF-36; T. V. Kornilova’s new questionnaire of tolerance to uncertainty; scale of psychological well-being by K. Riff as adapted by T. D. Shevelenkova, P. P. Fesenko; questionnaire by K. Zamfir “Motivation of professional activity” in the modification of A. A. Rean. Data processing was carried out in the RStudio program. To highlight the options for the course of the crisis, cluster analysis was used. Welch’s t-test was applied to compare the groups with each other. The one-sample Student’s t-test was used to compare groups with standard indicators.Results. It was revealed that the profession loss crisis can proceed according to two scenarios, each of which has its own characteristics.In a positive scenario (about 3/4 of cases), the indicators of physical and psychological health, vitality and psychological well-being do not differ from the normative values. At the same time, teachers generally have a good attitude towards their profession and have plans to continue working in profession and learning something new.In the negative scenario of the crisis, the indicators of resilience and psychological well-being are at the lower limit of the norm, and the indicators of physical and mental health are significantly lower than the norm. Teachers are much more likely to note disappointment in the profession and, in general, have a more negative attitude towards it than the representatives of the positive group. Among them, there are significantly more of those who plan to leave the profession and fewer of those who plan to stay in the profession and learn something new.Scientific novelty consists in the enrichment of psychological science with knowledge about the features of the profession loss crisis among older teachers working at different levels of education in the context of the professional development of the individual.Practical significance. The presented results can be employed in educational organisations to develop programmes for the prevention of the profession loss crisis among teachers and recommendations for teachers of late maturity to maintain their active professional longevity.

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Future Anxiety Among Young People Affected by War and Armed Conflict: Indicators for Social Work Practice

Alotaibi

2021

Front. Sociol.

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Strengthening the evidence base for professional social work intervention that contributes to providing psychosocial support to international students affected by war and conflict is a major priority as this vulnerable group of youth increases. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the level of future anxiety among international students coming from areas experiencing war and conflict. This study used the descriptive correlative approach, where the future anxiety scale was applied to a sample of 287 international students affected by war and conflicts. Findings showed that there are statistically significant differences between males and females (in favor of females) in the level of the social dimension of future anxiety. The current study results showed a statistically significant relationship between future anxiety and some variables related to war and conflict (living in a war environment - direct and indirect exposure to damage). There are statistically significant differences between those who lived in Yemen at the time of wars and those who did not live (in favor of those who lived in Yemen at the time of wars) in the level of future anxiety. There are also statistically significant differences between those exposed to harm or their family because of the war and those who were not exposed (in favor of those who were exposed) in the level of future anxiety as a whole. The study recommends developing psychosocial support services for this vulnerable group, considering the cultural context to promote women and protect them from discrimination in the services they deserve on an equal basis with men.

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A study on metaphors used by female teachers to describe their work-related stresses and psychological exhaustion: reflecting on potential interventions

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The Ego Depletion and Its Relationship with the Future Anxiety among the University Female Students

The Ego Depletion and Its Relationship with the Future Anxiety among the University Female Students

Features of the profession loss crisis in older teachers

Future Anxiety Among Young People Affected by War and Armed Conflict: Indicators for Social Work Practice

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