Conference Abstracts
Friday, March 12, 1999
3:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

"Stress in Different Occupations 1"

  1. Job Stress in Japanese Hospital Nurses: Comparison With Other Occupations - Akiko Miki, MS, Department of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  2. Nurses' Psychosocial Work Environment and Nonmedical Drug Use - Allison M. Trinkoff, RN, ScD, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and Carla L. Storr, ScD, Department of Mental Hygiene, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

  3. The Importance of Place: Work Setting and Physicians' Job Experiences - Lena Lundgren, PhD, School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA

  4. Minimizing Radiation Exposure During Nuclear Reactor Outages - Gordon O. Henry, PhD, American University, Washington, DC

  5. Stress Responding in Workers Following Industrial Disasters - Angela Liegey Dougall, MS, Behavioral Medicine and Oncology, Univeristy of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

  6. Social Comparison as a Coping Strategy Following Exposure to Industrial Disasters - Joelle Suchy Escoffery, MS, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

  7. Firefighters Exposed to Psychomental Stress and Hazards Work Situation - Gustav Schaecke, o. Prof. Dr. med., Institute of Occupational Medicine, Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  8. Teacher Stress in Australian Schools: Towards New Psychological Work Contracts - Trevor W. Deighton, BA, University Counselling and Health Service, Macquarie University, Australia

  9. Psychosocial Factors and Job Satisfaction in Teachers - Klaus Scheuch, Prof. Dr. med., University of Technology, Medical Faculty, Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine, Dresden, Germany

  10. Somatic and Subjective Strain in Cooks During 2 Days With Different Shift Systems in Dependence on Job Position and Age - Klaus Scheuch, Prof. Dr. med., University of Technology, Medical Faculty, Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine, Dresden, Germany

  11. Managed Care: New Risks for Psychiatric Patient Assaults on Staff - Raymond B. Flannery Jr., PhD, Department of Mental Health, Boston, MA

"Personality, Coping, and Job Stress"

  1. Personality Traits and Cognitive Performance During Sustained Operations - Linda Mullins, BS, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

  2. Effects of Personality and Job Stressors on Affective Reactions and Aggressive Work Behaviors - Susan Burroughs, MA, Department of Management, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TE

  3. Adolescent Personality Characteristics: Predictors of Markers of Job Stress - Sheila T. Fitzgerald, PhD, Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

  4. Effects of Personality and Work Stressors on Burnout: Curvilinearity or Interaction? - Peter Vlerick, PhD, Faculty of Psychology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

  5. Personality Factors in Work Stress: Are We Driving Each Other Crazy? - Alan A. Cavaiola, PhD, Psychology Department, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ

  6. Toward a Measure of Workstyle - Amy J. Haufler, PhD, The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD

  7. Effective Stress Coping Strategies in Correctional Health Care Workers - Christine D. Karkashian, MA, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

  8. Coping With Job Loss: Situational, Personality, Antecedents, and Multifaceted Outcomes - John Rudisill, PhD, Division of Applied Psychology, Department of Family Medicine, Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, OH

  9. Examination of the Correlates of Maladaptive Work Stress Coping Behaviors - Carlla Smith, PhD, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

"Job Stress Interventions"

  1. Communicating and Applying Stress Research Through Employee Wellness Programs - Sally Radmacher, PhD, Department of Psychology, Missouri Western State College, St. Joseph, MO

  2. Surviving Overload in the Information Age: Using Telecommunication Resources Successfully - A David Mangelsdorff, PhD, MPH, U.S. Army-Baylor University Graduate Program in Healthcare Administration, Center for Healthcare Education and Studies, U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, TX

  3. Performance Feedback and Physical Fitness Effects of Psychological Stress Resistance - Richard J. Tafalla, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI

  4. Effects of Critical Incident Debriefing on Stress and Trauma Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis - George S. Every, Jr., PhD, Senior Representative to the United Nations for The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation; and Loyola College, Severna Park, MD

  5. Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM): A Proposed International Standard of Care in Workplace Crisis Intervention - George S. Every, Jr., PhD, Senior Representative to the United Nations for The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation; and Loyola College, Severna Park, MD

  6. Air Force Prevention of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Occupations - Maj. Frank Budd, PhD, ABPP, Charleston Air Force Base, SC

  7. Workplace Abuse and Aggession: Antecedents, Processes, and Outcome - Loraleigh Keashly, PhD, College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

  8. The Poisoned Workplace: Impact on Careers and Lives of Targets of Workplace Bullying - Gary Namie, PhD, Campaign Against Workplace Bullying, Benicia, CA

  9. The Interactive Nature of Workplace Harassment: The Embedded Nature of Bully/Victim Relationship - Lisa Gebhardt, PhD, College of Public Programs, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

  10. The Quality of the Workplace Organization and Its Relationship to Employee Health - Ivan G. Most, ScD, PE, Strategic Occupational Health Management Inc., Cape Elizabeth, ME

"Impact of Downsizing and Job Change"

  1. Job Insecurity and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study in Finland - Ulla M. Kinnunen, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland

  2. Survivor Syndrome: Psychological Interventions in Downsizing - Sue E. Schonberg, MS, DuPont Employee Assistance Program, Parlin, NJ

  3. Application of Kanter's Theory of Structural Power to Hospital Change - Bonnie L. Lendrum, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, McMaster Division, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  4. Career Action Centre: The Health of Those Who Use It During Rapid Change - John McIntosh, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, McMaster Division, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  5. Welfare to Work Outcome Expectations versus Mental Health Status - Kenneth S. Thompson, MD, Institute for Public Health and Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA

  6. Relationships Among Depression, Paid Work, and Unpaid Work - Barbara Curbow, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

  7. Temporary Work, Psychological Contract, and Stress - Olympia M. Kyriakidou, MPhil, Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK

"Organizational and Methodological Issues"

  1. Understanding the Fatigue Index Score - Vinvent Cantwell, BS, The Human Factors Group, Linthicum, MD

  2. Preventing Self-Report Bias in Occupational Health Research - Stewart I. Donaldson, PhD, Department of Psychology, Claremont University, Claremont, CA

  3. An Investigation of "Challenge" and "Hindrance" Related Stress Among Mangers - Marcie A. Cavanaugh, PhD, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  4. Perceived Stressors of 386 Working Individuals Referred for Stress Management - John Garrison, PhD, MPH, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA

  5. Does Stress Affect Absenteeism? A Meta-Analytic Response - Yitzhak Fried, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

  6. Development and Validation of a Work-Family Orientation Scale - Robert P. Delprino, PhD, Department of Psychology, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY

  7. Organizational Commitment as a Predictor of Turnover - Raymond N. Wolfe, PhD, Department of Psychology, State University of New York, College at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY

  8. Creating Notifications Tailored for Individual Workers by Using a Database - Norio Mishima, MD, Department of Mental Health, IIES, University of Occupational and Environmental Health (UOEH), Kitakyushu, Japan

  9. Occupational Trends in Absences Resulting from Job-Related Stress - Bruce J. Bergman, Bureau of Labor Statistcs, Washington, DC

  10. Methodological Approaches to Sampling and Response Biases in Health Surveys - Randal D. Beaton, PhD, Department of Pychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA


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