Stress mindset theory suggests that positive stress beliefs lead to positive, rather than negative, outcomes when engaging with stressors. Similarly, the Transactional Model of Stress predicts that perceiving a stressor as challenging leads to positive outcomes whereas negative perceptions of the stressor as threatening invoke negative outcomes. The aim of this study was to provide preliminary ...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate the Eating and Appraisal Due to Emotions and Stress (EADES) Questionnaire that was created to measure how one uses food to cope with stress and emotions. DESIGN Data were collected from a cross-sectional study using the EADES Questionnaire. SUBJECTS/SETTING Convenience sample (response rate 22%) from a southeastern public university, including staff and fac...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Typus Melancholicus (TM) personality can be used to explain some individual differences related to the degree of athlete burnout and the features of its process, based on a comparison between TM and non-TM groups. For this purpose, we conducted a questionnaire investigation administered to Japanese university athletes using the Depression-rel...

BACKGROUND The relationship between coping styles and mental disorders has received considerable attention and instruments have been developed to assess coping strategies. The measurement by means of category systems has been criticized and a functional hierarchy of action types linked to the adaptive processes is preferred. We aimed to determine which factors may exist within the Brief-COPE (B...

conclusions children use variable methods to cope with their stress. therefore, parents, health trainers and school authorities should distinguish non-adaptive methods of children and teach them the adaptive coping strategies. results all coping methods inserted in the questionnaire were used by students. more than 70% of students mentioned “pray”, “say i’m sorry or tell the truth”, and “try to...

BACKGROUND In the last decade, the number of patients supported by informal caregivers has substantially increased. In the Italian healthcare context, informal caregivers' experience of care is a new under-recognized construct, and no assessment tool is available. Measuring caregivers' experience is important since in Italy the relationship between doctors and patients/relatives is still consid...