Stress is often referred to colloquially in only negative terms, but it can be both "good" and "bad." Eustress, sometimes called constructive stress, is a common response that helps people meet the demands of life. Distress, sometimes called destructive stress, on the other hand, may cause psychological suffering but is possible to manage through a variety of techniques. Regardless of the type ...

This article develops and validates the Positive Negative Adolescent Life Experiences (PANALE) scale, a 11-item tool that enables researchers to measure adolescent stressors in more valid efficient manner than existing scales. The PANALE presents good psychometric qualities, terms of construct validity (factorial structure, measurement invariance, composite reliability) concurrent with regard e...

Human space exploration cannot occur without reliable provision of nutritious and palatable food to sustain physical mental well-being. This ultimately will depend upon efficient production in space, with on-site manufacturing on stations or the future human colonies celestial bodies. Extraterrestrial environments are by their nature foreign, exposure various kinds plant stressors likely be avo...

AIM This article is a report of a study conducted to explore the relationship between sources of stress and psychological well-being and to consider how different sources of stress and coping resources might function as moderators and mediators on well-being. BACKGROUND In most research exploring sources of stress and coping in nursing students, stress has been construed as psychological dist...

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AIM This paper is a report of a study to test the proposed factor structure of the Index of Sources of Stress in Nursing Students. BACKGROUND Research across many countries has identified a number of sources of distress in nursing students but little attempt has been made to understand and measure sources of eustress or those stressors likely to enhance performance and well-being. The Index o...

This article examines the effects of computer self-efficacy and outcome expectancy on the end-user's sense of felt stress as mediated by job control. A nationwide survey of information technology end-users provided the sample. The results show that computer self-efficacy directly impacts personal and job related outcome expectancies and that computer self-efficacy and job related outcome expect...