Job-related stress and burnout

Occupational stress is a topic of substantial interest to organizational researchers and managers, as well as society at large. Stress arising from work conditions can be pervasive and significant in its impact on individuals, their families and organizations. There is also a widespread belief that management of job stress is a key factor for enhancing individual performance on the job, hence increasing organizational effectiveness. Sethi and Schuler 1984 outlined four major reasons why job stress and coping have become prominent issues: a concern for individual employee health and well-being; b the financial impact on organizations including days lost due to stress-related illness; c organizational effectiveness; and d legal obligations on employers to provide safe and healthy working environments

Double Bubbles in Assets Markets with Multiple Generations

We construct an asset market in a finite horizon overlapping-generations environment. Subjects are tested for comprehension of their fundamental value exchange environment, and then reminded during each of 25 periods of its declining new value. We observe price bubbles forming when new generations enter the market with additional liquidity and bursting as old generations exit the market and withdrawing cash. The entry and exit of traders in the market creates an M shaped double bubble price path over the life of the traded asset. This finding is significant in documenting that bubbles can reoccur within one extended trading horizon and, consistent with previous cross-subject comparisons, shows how fluctuations in market liquidity influence price paths. We also find that trading experience leads to price expectations that incorporate fundamental value.Asset Markets, Price Bubbles, Laboratory Experiments, Overlapping Generations

Effect of two-dimensional multiple sine-wave protrusions of the pressure and heat-transfer distributions for a flat plate at Mach 6

Effect of two dimensional multiple sine wave protrusions on pressure and heat transfer distributions for flat plate in hypersonic flo

Psychological Disturbance Following T-Groups: Relationship between the Eysenck Personality Inventroy and Family/Friends Perceptions

SUMMARY This study assessed the psychologically disturbing effects of sensitivity training. Two different measures of disturbance or distress were used, the Eysenck Personality Inventory (a standardized personality test) and a Behaviour Change questionnaire completed by the participant and his close family and friends. The relationship between the two measures was explored. Participants showed increases in neuroticism as a result of training but this was not confirmed by the participants' family and friends two weeks after the T-group (the most likely period of heightened disturbance from training). In fact, a large number of trainees saw themselves and were seen by their family, friends and children as slightly better able to cope with personal and family problems, more happy, better able to get on with their children and/or significant person/s, and better able to communicat

Psychological Disturbance Following T-Groups: Relationship between the Eysenck Personality Inventroy and Family/Friends Perceptions

SUMMARY This study assessed the psychologically disturbing effects of sensitivity training. Two different measures of disturbance or distress were used, the Eysenck Personality Inventory (a standardized personality test) and a Behaviour Change questionnaire completed by the participant and his close family and friends. The relationship between the two measures was explored. Participants showed increases in neuroticism as a result of training but this was not confirmed by the participants' family and friends two weeks after the T-group (the most likely period of heightened disturbance from training). In fact, a large number of trainees saw themselves and were seen by their family, friends and children as slightly better able to cope with personal and family problems, more happy, better able to get on with their children and/or significant person/s, and better able to communicat

The Special Study of Securities Markets of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Moved perhaps by a certain institutional egoism, the Securities and Exchange Commission welcomes this thorough symposium upon the Report of Special Study of Securities Markets. Although the product of a separate study group, this report has nevertheless been the focal point of debate throughout the Commission during the past eighteen months. Representing both an intensive and extensive inquiry into the securities markets, it is unquestionably the most ambitious and comprehensive study since the passage of the securities acts thirty years ago. It is not a sensational document-quite consciously. In our opinion, raising standards in the securities industry could best be achieved by thorough documentation, responsible analysis, and constructive criticism. Upon this premise it warrants thoughtful but critical review

The Impact of Elevated Environmental Temperature on Cytokine Synthesis and Nitric Oxide Production During Experimental Chagas\u27 Disease

C3H mice that have been infected with a Brazil strain of Trypanosoma cruzi and maintained at an elevated environmental temperature of 36°C survive an otherwise lethal infection. These mice show increased longevity and a dramatic increase in parasitemia levels. In contrast, C3H mice maintained at room temperature typically experience high parasitemia levels and die within 40 days of infection. Previous studies in the laboratory suggest cell-mediated immune responses rather than antibody-mediated responses are responsible for the enhances protection. The goal of the present study was to analyze cytokine synthesis and nitric oxide production in spleen cells from mice infected with 104 blood-form trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi and maintained either at room temperature or 36°C for 36 days. On day 36 of infection, mice were anesthetized. Blood was obtained by a cardiac puncture, and spleens were removed aseptically. A single cell suspension was prepared, and cells were diluted to a final concentration of 6 X 106 SC/ml. Spleen cells were incubated with or without concavalin A for 60 hours. Culture supernatants were analyzed for nitric oxide production using the Griess reaction; IFN-γ and IL-10 synthesis were measured by an antigen-capture ELISA. Results showed culture supernatants obtained from room-temperature mice had higher levels of nitric oxide and IFN-γ than mice maintained at 36°C. Levels of IL-10 were similar in both groups