BACKGROUND Emotional intelligence has been shown to affect academic performance and perceived stress. But conflicting reports suggest that the relationship between academic performance and emotional intelligence may not be straightforward. Hence, this study explored the relationship between emotional intelligence, perceived stress and academic performance. METHODS First year medical students ...

This is a cross-sectional study conducted among medical undergraduate students with the aim to assess resilience against stress in each year of education. Self-efficacy in terms of college education and social functioning has also been assessed and its relationship with perceived stress examined. Results indicated that resilience varies directly with stress up to a limit beyond which it becomes...

aim and background: spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence may complement each other in order to make a healthy life. on the one hand, spiritual intelligence leads to stabilization of virtues through improving spirituality and religious convictions and on the other hand, emotional intelligence improves social relations and controls affections and feelings. this may help individuals t...

BACKGROUND Stigma may deter military service members from seeking mental health (MH) services. Previously, substantial proportions of U.S. Air Force (USAF) registered nurses and medical technicians reported concerns about stigma with accessing MH services; in particular, that unit members might lose confidence in them or perceive them as weak, unit leadership might treat them differently, or ac...

The capacity for human service professionals to replenish resilience is important to their health and psychological wellbeing. The current study evaluated a brief Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills Training (MARST) program designed to enhance mindfulness and positive re-appraisal as psychological mechanisms for increasing resilience, decreasing psychological distress and perceived stress. ...

BACKGROUND The high level of stress experienced by nurses leads to moral distress, burnout, and a host of detrimental effects. OBJECTIVES To support creation of healthy work environments and to design a 2-phase project to enhance nurses' resilience while improving retention and reducing turnover. METHODS In phase 1, a cross-sectional survey was used to characterize the experiences of a high...

a bstract background: clinical competency is one of the most important requirements in nursing profession, based on which nurses are assessed. to obtain an effective and improved form of clinical competency, several factors are observed and monitored by the health educational systems. among these observed factors, spiritual intelligence is considered as one of the most significant factors in nu...