Work-family conflict in Japan: how job and home demands affect psychological distress

The aim of the present study was to examine how job and home demands are related to psychological distress in a sample of Japanese working parents with preschool children (n=196). We expected that job and home demands are partially related to psychological distress through work-to-family conflict (WFC) and family-to-work conflict (FWC), respectively. Structural equation modeling showed that, as expected, home demands were partially related to psychological distress, both directly and indirectly through FWC. In contrast, job demands were only directly related to psychological distress.

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Work-Home Interaction and Psychological Strain: The Moderating Role of Sleep Quality

Sleep has been considered crucial for recovery, but little is known about the specific associations between the workGÇôfamily interface and sleep quality. Based on COR theory, the goal of this study is to examine the moderating role of sleep quality on the relationship between workGÇôhome interaction (i.e. negative workGÇôhome interaction, negative homeGÇôwork interaction, positive workGÇôhome interaction, and positive homeGÇôwork interaction) and psychological strain. A total of 273 ambulance workers from Spain participated in the study.

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War exposure, daily stressors, and mental health in conflict and post-conflict settings: bridging the divide between trauma-focused and psychosocial frameworks

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Was passiert nach der stationären Stabilisierung mit komplex traumatisierten PTB-Patientinnen? Die Bedeutung von Stabilisierung und Konfrontation für die Behandlung traumatisierter Frauen

Female patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and additional complex backgrounds mostly receive stabilizing interventions when they are transferred into German inpatient treatments. This is assuming that patients after successful stabilization will be treated afterwards with trauma-confrontational methods in an outpatient setting. The following publication has two goals: First is to offer a quantitative literature review pertaining to stabilization and confrontational methods for patients with complex PTSD.

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Weighing the Costs of Disaster: Consequences, Risks, and Resilience in Individuals, Families, and Communities

Disasters typically strike quickly and cause great harm. Unfortunately, because of the spontaneous and chaotic nature of disasters, the psychological consequences have proved exceedingly difficult to assess. Published reports have often overestimated a disaster’s psychological cost to survivors, suggesting, for example, that many if not most survivors will develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), at the same time, these reports have underestimated the scope of the disaster’s broader impact in other domains.

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Vulnerability factors for disaster-induced child post-traumatic stress disorder: the case for low family resilience and previous mental illness

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to investigate whether parent report of family resilience predicted children's disaster-induced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and general emotional symptoms, independent of a broad range of variables including event-related factors, previous child mental illness and social connectedness. METHODS: A total of 568 children (mean age = 10.2 years, SD = 1.3) who attended public primary schools, were screened 3 months after Cyclone Larry devastated the Innisfail region of North Queensland.

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Veränderte selbstwahrnehmung bei der posttraumatischen belastungsstörung = Changed self-perception in the posttraumatic stress disorder transparancy illusion and self handicapping.

Traumapatienten zeigen eine Reihe von Veränderungen in der sozialen Wahrnehmung von anderen Personen und sich selbst. In der sozialen Kognitionsforschung sind im Zusammenhang mit der sozialen Kognition die Konzepte »Transparency Illusion« (TI: Durchschautwerden-Können-Illusion) und Self-Handicapping (SH: Sich-selbst-Handicappen) beschrieben. Wir untersuchten diese beiden Phänomene mit neu entwickelten Methoden in einer Gruppenvergleichsstudie bei PTBS-Patienten. 16 Patienten mit einer partiellen oder voll ausgeprägten PTBS wurden mit einer gesunden Kontrollgruppe verglichen.

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VI Congreso Internacional sobre Vi?ctimas del Terrorismo : Salamanca (Espan?a) 11, 12 y 13 de febrero de 2010

Desde el año 2004, a través del Observatorio Internacional de Víctimas del Terrorismo de laFundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU, vienen celebrándose nuevas ediciones de los CongresosInternacionales sobre Víctimas del Terrorismo.

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Using the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF) to describe the functioning of traumatised refugees

Abstract: The aim of this project was to use the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to develop an interdisciplinary instrument consisting of a Core Set, a number of codes selected from ICF, to describe the overall health condition of traumatised refugees.

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Using the MMPI to Assess Reported Cognitive Disturbances and Somatization as a Core Feature of Complex PTSD

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) clinical scales as well as 4 sets of MMPI items known to be sensitive to neurological dysfunction (closed head injury, cerebrovascular disorder) were administered to survivors of childhood physical and/or sexual abuse and to non-abused adults. As predicted, relative to the comparison group of psychiatric patients, the abused participants scored significantly higher on Scale 8 (Schizophrenia) and on all 4 sets of items associated with neurological dysfunction.

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