Are clergy serving yoked congregations more vulnerable to burnout? : a study among clergy serving in the Presbyterian church (USA) [PDF]
Pressures generated by increasing secularization and decreasing vocations to ordained ministry are resulting across denominations in a growing number of clergy serving more than one congregation.
Bradburn +27 more
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Work-related psychological health and psychological type among lead elders within the Newfrontiers network of churches in the United Kingdom [PDF]
Building on a series of recent studies concerned with assessing work-related psychological health and psychological type among various groups of church leaders, this study reports new data provided by 134 Lead Elders within the Newfrontiers network of ...
Bradburn N. M. +23 more
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Protestant Millennials, Religious Doubt, & the Local Church
Millennials are the most analyzed and populous generation in the United States. Collectively, they have been slowly re-shaping the American culture. Protestant Millennials, a subset of this generation, have been ruffling feathers in their local churches.
Keith A. Puffer
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Mindfulness meditation and improvement in depressive symptoms among Spanish- and English speaking adults: A randomized, controlled, comparative efficacy trial. [PDF]
ObjectiveLatino immigrants experience acculturative stress and increased depression risk. Mindfulness meditation improves depressive symptoms, yet the vast majority of research has focused on English speaking populations.MethodsIn this randomized ...
Irwin, Michael R +2 more
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Clergy work-related psychological health : listening to the Ministers of Word and Sacrament within the United Reformed Church in England [PDF]
Drawing on the classic model of balanced affect proposed by Bradburn (The structure of psychological well-being, Aldine, Chicago, IL, 1969), this study conceptualised poor work-related psychological health in terms of high levels of negative affect in ...
Charlton, Rodger +4 more
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A Mitochondrial Health Index Sensitive to Mood and Caregiving Stress. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Chronic life stress, such as the stress of caregiving, can promote pathophysiology, but the underlying cellular mechanisms are not well understood.
Aschbacher, Kirstin +7 more
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A new scale to assess the therapeutic relationship in community mental health care: STAR [PDF]
Background. No instrument has been developed specifically for assessing the clinician-patient therapeutic relationship (TR) in community psychiatry. This study aimed to develop a measure of the TR with clinician and patient versions using psychometric ...
Catty, Jocelyn +5 more
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Anger and assaultiveness of male forensic patients with developmental disabilities : links to volatile parents [PDF]
This study with 107 male forensic patients with developmental disabilities investigated whether exposure to parental anger and aggression was related to anger and assaultiveness in a hospital, controlling for background variables.
Novaco, Raymond, Taylor, John
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The relationship between recalled self-esteem as a child and current levels of professional burnout among Anglican clergy in England [PDF]
This study links and tests three strands of theory concerned with explaining individual differences in levels of professional burnout in general and among religious professionals in particular. These three strands concern the significance of current self-
Francis, Leslie J. +4 more
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Academic Stress Factors in Female Students of the Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
Introduction. Stress is a disorder that causes physical and psychological damage in most people, it can be generated not only by emotional aspects but by demands of a social nature and threats from the individual’s environment that require the ability to
César-Guillermo Lora-Velarde +2 more
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