Relationship between job stress, temperament and depressive symptoms in female nurses

Objectives: A casual relationship between temperament, job stress and depressive symptoms has not been established yet. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationships between job stress, temperament and depressive symptoms in female nurses at a Japanese general hospital. Material and Methods: A self-report survey was conducted among 706 nurses. We measured job stress, temperament, and depressive symptoms using the Brief-Job Stress Questionnaire, the TEMPS-A and a screening scale of items from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan. In order to examine the causal relationship between the measures the stepwise multiple regression and path analyses were used. Results: Depressive symptoms were modestly correlated with job stress (γ = -0.23-0.30). Except for hyperthymic temperament measures, the correlations between depressive symptoms and temperament types were significant and moderate (γ = 0.36-0.50). Overtime, job control as well as depressive and cyclothymic types of temperament were significantly correlated with depressive symptoms (β = 0.15, p < 0.05; β = 0.19, p < 0.01; β = 0.26, p < 0.001; β = 0.32, p < 0.001, respectively). Path-analysis revealed that depressive and cyclothymic types of temperament influenced depressive symptoms both directly (β = 0.67, p < 0.001) and indirectly via job stress (β = 0.35, p < 0.001 from temperament to job stress; β = 0.20, p < 0.05 from job stress to depressive symptoms). Irritable and anxious types of temperament and quantitative job overload did not contri­bute to the path-analytic model. Conclusions: Health care professionals should consider temperament, especially depressive and cyclothymic types, in order to help employees cope better with job stress factors. We need further research about the effective intervention to help employees better cope with their job stress

Biocontrol Potential of Forest Tree Endophytes

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The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics' resources: focus on curated databases

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (www.isb-sib.ch) provides world-class bioinformatics databases, software tools, services and training to the international life science community in academia and industry. These solutions allow life scientists to turn the exponentially growing amount of data into knowledge. Here, we provide an overview of SIB's resources and competence areas, with a strong focus on curated databases and SIB's most popular and widely used resources. In particular, SIB's Bioinformatics resource portal ExPASy features over 150 resources, including UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, ENZYME, PROSITE, neXtProt, STRING, UniCarbKB, SugarBindDB, SwissRegulon, EPD, arrayMap, Bgee, SWISS-MODEL Repository, OMA, OrthoDB and other databases, which are briefly described in this article

Das türkische Strafgesetzbuch - Türk Ceza Kanunu : vom 1. März 1926 - nach dem Stand vom 31. Januar 2001

Das Türkische Strafgesetzbuch (Gesetz Nr. 765 vom 1.3.1926) trat am 1.7.1926 in Kraft. Seitdem wurde es durch 5 Änderungsgesetze und sechs Verfassungsgerichtsentscheidungen eingreifend geändert. Mehrere Anläufe zu einer umfassenden Reform blieben jedoch bisher erfolglos, und das Gesetz wird heute bisweilen sprachlich und inhaltlich mit einem Flickenteppich verglichen. Eine deutsche Übersetzung in der Reihe "Sammlung außerdeutscher Strafgesetzbücher in deutscher Übersetzung" von 1955 war mittlerweile völlig veraltet, so daß eine umfassende Neubearbeitung geboten war, die 1998 erschien. Jetzt folgt die 2. Auflage nach dem Stand von Januar 2001. Außer dem vollständigen Text des Strafgesetzbuchs enthält der vorliegende Band Auszüge aus dem Strafvollzugsgesetz (Gesetz Nr. 647 vom 13.7.1965), dem Jugendgerichtsgesetz (Gesetz Nr. 2253 vom 7.11.1979) und dem Antiterrorgesetz (Gesetz Nr. 3713 vom 12.4.1991), soweit deren Kenntnis für das Verständnis der Vorschriften des Strafgesetzbuchs erforderlich ist