The Psychofortology of Female Psychiatric Out-Patients: Living with Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Steyn, Catherina; Howcroft, J.G.; Fouché, Jaco

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“…It is assumed that physical well-being can decrease the level of negative response to stress, and enable faster recovery. CRI has not been used to examine police officers, but it has been used to study coping resources in other populations [19][20][21]. Cognitive and physical resources were the best predictors of various forms of symptoms in a study by Zeidner and Hammer [21].…”

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The significance of the sense of coherence for various coping resources in stress situations used by police officers in on-the-beat service

Dåderman

Colli

2014

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

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Background: Police officers meet many stressors as part of their occupation. The psychological resource "sense of coherence" (SOC) protects against ill-health, but its impact on coping resources for stress situations has not been studied in the population of police officers. Different approaches to investigate the significance of SOC for different outcomes have been identified in literature, leading to some difficulties in the interpretation and generalization of results. The aim was therefore to explore SOC and the coping resources, and to examine the significance of SOC for various coping resources for stress using different models in a sample of Swedish police officers providing on-the-beat service. Materials and Methods: One hundred and one police officers (age: mean = 33 years, SD = 8; 29 females) were included, and the Orientation to Life Questionnaire (SOC-29) and the Coping Resources Inventory (CRI) were used. The dependent variable in each regression analysis was one of the coping resources: cognitive, social, emotional, spiritual/philosophical, physical, and a global resource. Global SOC-29 and/or its components (comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness) were investigated as independent variables. Results: All CRI and SOC-29 scores except for that of spiritual/philosophical resources were higher than those of reference groups. Manageability was the most important component of SOC for various coping resources in stress situations used by police officers. Conclusion: A deeper study of manageability will give useful information, because this component of SOC is particularly significant in the variation in resources used by police officers to cope with stress. Salutogenesis, the origin of well-being, should be more in focus of future research on workplaces with a high level of occupational stress. Key words: SOC, Comprehensibility, Manageability, Meaningfulness, CRI, Police officersThis work was performed within a project DNR 2012/1196 B 22 entitled "Significance of human factors such as self-esteem, personality traits, sense of coherence and coping resources for attitudes to crisis management". Project Manager:

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The significance of the sense of coherence for various coping resources in stress situations used by police officers in on-the-beat service

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Colli

2014

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

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“…These studies refer to women in rural areas (J. Kim & Motsei, 2002) and townships (Smit et al, 2006) or to clinical contexts (Steyn, Howcroft, & Fouché, 2011), with little attention being paid to the well-being of women in leadership positions in South African higher education institutions (HEIs).…”

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Women leaders in higher education: a psycho-spiritual perspective

Mayer

Surtee²,

Barnard

2014

South African Journal of Psychology

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Demands on women in middle and senior leadership positions in higher education institutions inevitably challenge their well-being. How they manage these demands is strongly related to their sense of coherence and their spirituality, constructs that have demonstrated positive relations with general and work-related well-being. This study aims to explore the construction of sense of coherence and spirituality of women leaders in higher education institutions. It adopts a qualitative research approach, applying constructivist grounded theory. The sample comprises 13 academic and support services women working in higher education, who belong to the Higher Education Resource Services South Africa network, a non-profit organisation that promotes leadership development and representation of women in senior positions in higher education. This study contributes to knowledge on gender-specific well-being concepts by presenting qualitative findings on women leaders' life-orientation in terms of sense of coherence and spirituality in a higher education institution in South Africa. Themes from the interview data provide key insights on three subcomponents of sense of coherence: manageability, comprehensibility, and meaningfulness. Spirituality furthermore emerged as constructed in inner-connectedness, trans-personality, and a coping resource in the work context. Meaningfulness emerged as central to the life-orientation and spirituality of women leaders in higher education. Finally, a core theoretical idea is presented in proposing an integrated psycho-spiritual perspective, with meaningfulness as central, grounded in a motivational and relational orientation, and facilitating the potential well-being of women leaders in higher education institutions. Recommendations are made for future research and to inform leadership development and well-being interventions targeting women in higher education.

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Examining the relationship between lateralisation for processing emotional faces, depression, and sex

Bourne¹,

Vladeanu²

2013

Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition

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It is now relatively well established that the right hemisphere is specialised for processing facial emotion; however, there is variability in this pattern of lateralisation. One factor that has been examined is atypical lateralisation in individuals diagnosed with clinical psychological conditions. To date the evidence regarding the neuropsychological processing of emotional stimuli in individuals with depression is contradictory. In this study 160 participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory and the chimeric faces test, a test of lateralisation for the processing of facial expressions of each of the six basic emotions. A negative relationship between depression and lateralisation was found for females only, showing that women with higher depression scores tend to be less strongly lateralised to the right hemisphere, or even lateralised to the left hemisphere, for processing facial emotion. The strength of this relationship also varied across the different emotions with the clearest results for the processing of anger, disgust, and fear. There were no significant findings for males. The possible reasons for there being a sex difference in our findings and an attempt to reconcile the disparate findings within this area of research are discussed.

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The Psychofortology of Female Psychiatric Out-Patients: Living with Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

The significance of the sense of coherence for various coping resources in stress situations used by police officers in on-the-beat service

The significance of the sense of coherence for various coping resources in stress situations used by police officers in on-the-beat service

Women leaders in higher education: a psycho-spiritual perspective

Examining the relationship between lateralisation for processing emotional faces, depression, and sex

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