Research shows that nurses are one of the most vulnerable categories professionals to develop stress and other problems due nature their job. Thus objective this study is describe perceived experienced during COVID-19 pandemic among Malaysian nurses. A cross-sectional was conducted through an online form involving 319 randomly selected from a teaching hospital on east coast Pahang, Malaysia, be...

PURPOSE To explore the association between perceived spasticity and psychological factors (pain sensations, coping strategies, and illness cognitions) in chronic spinal cord injured (SCI) patients. METHODS Cross-sectional study using a set of questionnaires was designed for chronic complete patients with SCI and with self-reported leg spasticity. Outcome measures were Visual Analogue Scale fo...

Perceived control over aversive events and perception of the predictability of those events have been confounded in learned helplessness research. The independent effects of perceived control over and perceived predictability of an aversive event on subjects' performance on a memory task and depressive affect were examined. Subjects who received noise blasts that were both uncontrollable and un...

BACKGROUND Uncontrollable aversive events are associated with feelings of helplessness and cortisol elevation and are suitable as a model of depression. The high comorbidity of depression and pain symptoms and the importance of controllability in both conditions are clinically well-known but empirical studies are scarce. The study investigated the relationship of pain experience, helplessness, ...

Control has emerged as an important psychological variable. The purpose of this project was to extend the concept of environmental control to the homeless shelter environment. Data from interviews conducted with residents of a homeless shelter supported the hypothesis that perceived loss of control over the shelter environment would be positively related to giving up on finding a home and emplo...

BACKGROUND During acute coronary syndromes patients perceive intense distress. We hypothesized that retrospective ratings of patients' MI-related fear of dying, helplessness, or pain, all assessed within the first year post-MI, are associated with poor cardiovascular outcome. METHODS We studied 304 patients (61 ± 11 years, 85% men) who after a median of 52 days (range 12-365 days) after index...

Learned helplessness is a maladaptive response to uncontrollable stress characterized by impaired motor escape responses, reduced motivation and learning deficits. There are important individual differences in the likelihood of becoming helpless following exposure to uncontrollable stress but little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying these individual differences. Here we used struc...

Because of increased stress conditions in college students, updated psychometrics of the Perceived Stress Scale, 10-item version (PSS-10; S. Cohen & G. Williamson, 1988) are necessary. Participants were 281 undergraduates at 3 public universities. An exploratory factor analysis revealed a 2-factor structure measuring Perceived Helplessness and Perceived Self-Efficacy. Normative results, interna...

In this study, we investigated the mediating effects of classroom silence and academic self-efficacy on relationship between English climate learned helplessness among vocational college students. A total 501 students from 5 postsecondary colleges in Fujian Province, China, were assessed using Classroom Climate Scale, Silence Learning Self-Efficacy Learned Helplessness Scale. Structural equatio...