A Phenomenological Study of Two-Year College Students\u27 Transition Experiences at a Four-Year Institution

Two-year college students experience challenges as they transfer to a four-year institution. To investigate these documented challenges, the present study used Weidman\u27s Model of Undergraduate Socialization (1989) and Deil-Amen\u27s (2011) notion of socio-academic integrative moments to examine these transitions. Specifically, a qualitative phenomenological study was conducted to explore the experiences of twelve two-year college students during their transition to a four-year university in the fall 2013. The results include four themes, which were developed through an iterative data analysis process. These emergent themes were: (a) A student\u27s age impacted their transition and social integration, (b) the academic transition was challenging, (c) making connections to the new campus was critical for a successful transition and (d) communication targeted to new transfer students was valuable and important for a successful transitio

Underutilization of effective coping styles in male physicians with burnout.

Ineffective coping is a risk factor for burnout among physicians, in whom the prevalence of burnout is high and has also increased in recent years. We examined in a cross-sectional study whether physicians with burnout show different coping styles compared with healthy controls. Male physicians (n = 60) were recruited into two groups (burnout vs. healthy). The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were applied. Wilcoxon rank-sum test showed group differences in two of the three coping styles, task-oriented and emotion-oriented, and also in one of the two subscales of the avoidance-oriented coping: social-diversion-oriented coping. Multiple binomial logistic regression, controlling for age, showed that lower task-oriented coping (OR = 0.38 (0.13-0.93), p = 0.048, d = 0.534) and lower social-diversion-oriented coping (OR = 0.33 (0.11-0.80), p = 0.024, d = 0.611) significantly predicted the burnout group. The findings suggest that male physicians with burnout differ from healthy controls in terms of less frequent utilization of effective coping styles. These findings could be explored for their utility in preventing burnout in future studie

Psychotrauma durch Herzerkrankungen

Ein Herzinfarkt als lebensbedrohliches Ereignis kann zu einer posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung führen, die sich wiederum ungünstig auf die kardiale Prognose auswirkt. In diesem Beitrag wird der Zusammenhang von Herzerkrankungen und dem Auftreten einer posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung beleuchtet. Spezifische Prädiktoren, Besonderheiten der posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung bei Herzpatienten sowie therapeutische Implikationen werden beschrieben. Psychotrauma due to heart disease: As a life-threatening event, a myocardial infarction can induce posttraumatic stress disorder, which in turn adversely affects the cardiac prognosis. This article highlights the relationship between heart disease and the occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder. Specific predictors that promote posttraumatic stress disorder, special features of posttraumatic stress in cardiac patients as well as therapeutic options are described