This study addressed school-contextual features of social disorder in relation to sixth-grade students' experiences of bullying victimization and mental health complaints. It investigated, firstly, whether the school's concentrations of behavioural problems were associated with individual students' likelihood of being bullied, and secondly, whether the school's concentrations of behavioural pro...

In the course of digitisation, work away from principal office using information and communications technology (telework, telecommuting, mobile work) has established itself in various segments labour market. Still, impact telework on employees’ health is far clear often controversially discussed at individual, organisational political level—but also social research. Against this background, we ...

BACKGROUND During adolescence children are usually confronted with an expanding social arena. Apart from families, schools and neighbourhoods, peers, classmates, teachers, and other adult figures gain increasing importance for adolescent socio-emotional adjustment. The aim of the present study was to investigate the extent to which Greek adolescents' perceived well-being in three main social co...

BACKGROUND Informal caregivers' (CGs') subjective burden is an important aspect of the care situation because it is linked to various outcomes such as health, mortality risk, institutionalization, and caregiving style. The aims of this study were a) to examine the convergent and discriminant validity of the 10-item short version of the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers (BSFC-s) and b) to devel...

A successful application of statistics to medical sciences is our experience with analysis of data from the Cornell Medical Index-Health Questionnaire. (1-13). K. Fukamachi and T. Kanehisa of Kyushu University translated the Cornell Medical Index Questionnaire and tried to establish a diagnostic rule to distinguish neurotic and mentally unhealthy patients from mentally healthy patients at the d...

Abstract In the Finnish medical discussion during middle decades of twentieth century, challenging differential diagnostics between hyperthyroidism and various neuroses was perceived to yield a risk unnecessary surgical interventions psychiatric patients. 1963, surgeon Erkki Saarenmaa claimed that ‘the most significant mark neurotic transverse scar on neck’, result an thyroid surgery. The utter...

In order to evaluate the physical and psychological health effects of air pollutants from new building materials, 100 employees who worked in new buildings were given a general health questionnaire, and the prevalence of their subjective complaints was measured. The collected data were classified according to age, gender, smoking status, profession, working time, sleep time, life style, and len...