Background: There has been considerable research on Autism and ADHD, which are recognized as significant special educational needs. Many studies use samples which have been diagnosed with these conditions, but there is also a growing trend to focus on these traits among community...
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Research Article10.9734/jesbs/2023/v36i71236
Background: There has been recent interest in the problems associated with studying or working away from home. A recent model of “working away” describes appropriate coping strategies across the time course from preparing to leave home for work, adapting to work away and returni...
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Research Article10.9734/jesbs/2021/v34i1230390
Background: Previous research has suggested that enteroviruses may be implicated in the development and persistence of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). One method of investigating this topic has been to use a polio vaccination challenge, and a previous study showed that CFS patien...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2021/v8i430248
Background: This is the third article from a project on the wellbeing of staff, students, and parents at a Welsh-medium Secondary School. It focuses on the wellbeing of working mothers before COVID-19 lockdown, immediately after lockdown, and perceptions of the longer-term impact...
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Research Article10.9734/jesbs/2021/v34i1130373
Background: There has been considerable research on the well-being of secondary school students, most of which focuses on health-related behaviour or mental health issues. The well-being process model provides a framework that examines predictors of positive and negative well-bei...
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Research Article10.9734/jesbs/2021/v34i830350
Background: There has been extensive research on the well-being of teachers, with much of it focusing on stress and mental health problems. Recent research has led to the development of the well-being process model, which examines predictors of positive and negative well-being o...
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Research Article10.9734/jesbs/2021/v34i430319
Background: The wellbeing process model formed the basis of questionnaires that can demonstrate which factors predict negative and positive wellbeing outcomes. The Student Wellbeing Process Questionnaire (Student WPQ) uses stressor, negative coping, psychological capital and soci...
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Research Article10.9734/jesbs/2020/v33i130196
Background: The Student Wellbeing Process Questionnaire (Student WPQ) has been used to identify predictors of both positive and negative wellbeing. These variables can now be used to investigate whether different aspects of the wellbeing process are associated with academic outco...
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Research Article10.9734/jesbs/2019/v32i430185
Background: Reviews of previous research have identified factors which influence the well-being of international students studying away from home. One area that has received little attention is the extent to which these students adopt positive coping strategies that help their ad...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/43377
Background: Effects of cognitive fatigue have been widely studied in operational settings and in working populations. Less is known about the effects of cognitive fatigue on the well-being and academic attainment of university students and the present study aimed to provide infor...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/39529
Background: Human factors are widely acknowledged as major contributors in road traffic collision (RTC) involvement. The aim of the present study, using secondary data analysis was to analyse associations between job characteristics, mental health, personality, fatigue and drivin...
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Research Article10.9734/jesbs/2019/v29i230104
Background: The first aim of this study was to investigate the influence of psychosocial characteristics on four training attitudes (motivation to learn, learning, transfer intention and cognitive dissonance) and well-being. The second — and main — aim was to examine the impact o...
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Research Article10.9734/jesbs/2019/v29i130100
Background: The Well-being Process Questionnaire (WPQ) has proven to be a useful instrument in the measurement of well-being. This is because it uses single/short items to measure several well-being variables with the same instrument. This article attempts to add resilience, work...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/45535
Background: This study aimed to investigate the influence of attitudes towards training on individuals’ level of well-being, after controlling for other variables (demographics and psychosocial characteristics). Attitudes towards training consist of motivation to learn, learning,...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/44445
Background: The first aim of this study was to analyse the structure of coping and to develop a measuring instrument to be used in future work. A second aim was to examine associations between coping scores and negative outcomes (anxiety, depression, fatigue, cognitive difficulti...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/41894
Background: Previous research shows that the Student Well-being Process Questionnaire (Student WPQ) has good content validity, construct validity, and discriminate validity. Objective: The present research examined the reliability and predictive validity of the Student WPQ scales...
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Research Article10.9734/JESBS/2018/40105
Aims: Performance in school is known to predict a number of important outcomes in later life (e.g. socioeconomic status). For this reason it is considered useful to identify aspects of demography and lifestyle that are associated with low school attendance, low academic attainmen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/26393
Aims: Stress, anxiety, and depression are alarmingly common in the general population, can be extremely debilitating, and are a huge cost to public health services. Understanding risk factors associated with such conditions may therefore be useful in helping devise intervention s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/19501
Aims: This paper describes a comparison study of trainee clinical psychologists, psychiatric nursing students and PhD students using a multi-dimensional model of stress. Methodology: A total of 168 trainee clinical psychologists, 94 psychiatric nursing students and 253 PhD studen...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2015/18519
Aims: Ethnicity and culture represent a novel topic in the literature on stress and wellbeing at work because there has not been enough consideration of them in studies of work stress. This paper aims to present a critical review and evaluate recent articles investigating ethnici...
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Research Article10.9734/BJESBS/2016/24340