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The Effects Of Life Stress And Risk-Taking Style On Risk Perception And Driver Performance, Christine B. Philput
The Effects Of Life Stress And Risk-Taking Style On Risk Perception And Driver Performance, Christine B. Philput
Psychology Theses & Dissertations
This study examined the effects of risk-taking style, stress level, and highway environment on driver performance. In Phase I, 50 subjects were assessed for risk-taking style and stress level. In Phase II, the same subjects were presented with slides of traffic situations that varied in terms of risk of accident. This was a paired comparison task in which they rank-ordered ten highway sites, producing a measure of subjective risk. No significant relationships were identified between these subjective risk judgments and objective data regarding those sites (accidents and fatalities), though this is most likely due to problems with the slide presentation. …
Reducing Stress Of Inservice Teachers, Jeffrey R. Curley
Reducing Stress Of Inservice Teachers, Jeffrey R. Curley
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
A prototype treatment developed to significantly reduce symptoms of stress among inservice teachers was tested in this experiment. Thirty participants selected for high stress levels were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. They were assessed on environmental, personality, and emotional variables, using self-report and expert-judge measures, both pre- and posttreatment. The experimental treatment was holistic, incorporating all processes previously found to be related to reducing teacher stress. At posttreatment, the treatment group averaged 1.02 standard deviations lower on the stress measures than the control group. Significant differences in the posttest means, favoring the experimental group, were found for 23 …
Relieving Strain In Informal Caregivers Of The Elderly, Roberta Louise Babbage
Relieving Strain In Informal Caregivers Of The Elderly, Roberta Louise Babbage
Theses Digitization Project
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