Purpose A career in entrepreneurship is stressful, especially during the start-up phase. Training programs for these nascent entrepreneurs are designed to improve entrepreneurial competencies and, more generally generate learnings. Although learning outcomes can reduce stress, conditions under which this happen not fully understood. The study looks particularly at effect of learning, interactio...

conclusions the effects of rp knowledge, attitude, and practice on job stress were significant. in order to reduce job stress in radiation environments, ongoing training programs related to self-care and protection principles are recommended. results the prevalence rate of job stress was 22.5% based on calculation formulas and possible scores on the jcq. sex, rp-knowledge, attitude, practice, a...

Operant conditioning using positive reinforcement techniques has been used extensively in the management of nonhuman primates in both zoological and laboratory settings. This research project was intended to test the usefulness of counter-conditioning techniques in reducing the fear-responses of singly housed male rhesus macaques living in the laboratory environment. A total of 18 male rhesus m...

More than 5 million deaths a year are attributable to tobacco smoking, but attempts to help people either quit or reduce their smoking often fail, perhaps in part because the intention to quit activates brain networks related to craving. We recruited participants interested in general stress reduction and randomly assigned them to meditation training or a relaxation training control. Among smok...

the present research was done to examine the efficacy of psychosocial skills training on psychological and job stress management of bus drivers. accessible sampling method was utilized and the sample consisted of 157 bus drivers in the city of tehran. the research method is quasi- experimental with pretest-posttest. job stress inventory and stress response inventory were administered before and...

pinto bean is a susceptible plant to drought stress. however, there is genotype variation for this trait in this plant. in order to investigate the effects of drought stress on physiological traits and grain yield of pinto bean genotypes cultivated in zanjan province, an experiment was conducted as spilt plot based on a completely randomized block design with four replications at zanjan univers...

Background & aim: Women experience various changes in their transition into motherhood and feel stressed while facing new challenges in this period. High levels of stress may prevent mothers from realizing their maternal role. In this study, we aimed to explore the effects of training on the stress of primiparous mothers. Methods:In this quasi-experimental intervention, 100 pregnant women were ...

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is thought to reduce emotional reactivity and enhance emotion regulation in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD). The goal of this study was to examine the neural correlates of deploying attention to regulate responses to negative self-beliefs using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants were 56 patients with generalized SAD in a ran...