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Volume 24 (2001)
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Volume 24, Issue 1
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Chikako Katou2001 Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 1_57-1_66
Published: April 01, 2001
Released on J-STAGE: March 31, 2016
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study examined the effect of sex roles in men and women on their mental health and their ability to cope. The subjects were 195 students (95 males and 100 females) from colleges and universities including post-graduate students. The Bem Sex Role Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) were used in this study. The subjects were classified into four types of sex role such as masculine, feminine, androgynous and undifferentiated. The primary finding was that subjects calssified as androgynous type of sex roles had the best conditions of mental health among all subjects in this study. A secondary finding of the study was that people's mental health and their coping abilities of subjects were relative to their sex roles.View full abstractDownload PDF (777K) -
Atsuko Kasai, Kumiko Honma, Kumiko Hanada, Chikako Yonaiyama, Kimi Kim ...2001 Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 1_67-1_75
Published: April 01, 2001
Released on J-STAGE: March 31, 2016
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of this study was to examine whether there is a difference between smokers and nonsmokers in terms of learning motivation and mental health on the basis of 1,040 nursing student respondents. The investigation included questionnaires regarding smoking, the Gakugeidai Academic Motivation Inventory as a measure of learning motivation, and the Cornell Medical Index-Health Questionnaire (CMI) as a measure of mental health. The rate of smokers was 31.5 percent and that of nonsmokers 42.6 percent. The level of learning motivation among smokers was significantly lower than that for nonsmokers. Many smokers reported that they always smoke before, during, and after studying. They also reported that smoking enhances learning motivation and aids organizing their ideas. Neurotic tendencies were identified more frequently in smokers than in nonsmokers by the CMI questionnaire. Among smokers, no difference in learning motivation was identified between the normal and the neurotic groups. However, among nonsmokers, the level of learning motivation in the neurotic group was significantly lower than that for the normal group. The findings suggest the importance of teachers encouraging students to quit smoking and raising learning motivation in students who smoke.View full abstractDownload PDF (713K) -
Chieko Fujiwara, Ikumi Honda, Kazumi Hoshi, Yoshiko Ishida, Kyoko Ishi ...2001 Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 1_77-1_88
Published: April 01, 2001
Released on J-STAGE: March 31, 2016
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of this study was to develop the measure of job stress among nurses that were defined as Advanced Beginner by P.Benner and to analyze the factor which influences job stress. The data were collected from a sample of nurses as Advanced Beginner (n=1287) whose nursing experience were under 3 years after the graduation and a sample of nurses (n=424) whose nursing experience were about 10 years. They were asked to answer a self-reported questionnaire.
The result of the factor analysis showed that it was composed of 26 items and consisted of 6 sub-scales. There were separated two meanings as 3 sub-scales about the nursing care and 3 sub-scales about the human relations of the workplace. This measure had validity, and Cronbach's α coefficients were 0.853 for the total items and from 0.589 to 0.862 for each factors. The degree of stress among nurses were found to influence the generalized self-efficacy, the years of the nursing experiences, hope for the assignment of the ward and the educational background of the nursing.View full abstractDownload PDF (922K) -
Kazuoki Kume, Fumiko Mori2001 Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 1_89-1_98
Published: April 01, 2001
Released on J-STAGE: March 31, 2016
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia remain difficult to characterize. Interest is, therefore, being focused on the identification of early warning signs of a recurrent clinical episode in order to provide optimal care for such patients. However, as with the characterization of prodromal symptoms, identifying a stage scale for these early warning signs is difficult and another quantitative and continuous measuring method seems to be required. In an attempt to identify such a warning sign, we counted the number of paces of patients prior to a clinical episode, because we speculated that this factor correlated with changes in the severity of mental symptoms. We attached a pedometer to eight long-term hospitalized schizophrenic patients. The number of paces was measured daily from Monday to Friday for a period of about one year, with the average number of paces obtained from the total number of steps every week. Simultaneously, the severity of mental symptoms was measured weekly. Five of the eight patients showed a significant correlation between number of paces and increasing severity of schizophrenic symptoms. In addition, number of paces changed significantly from 4 weeks to 1 week before the manifestation of mental symptoms. Therefore, measuring the number of paces may effectively determine the probable onset of a deterioration in the mental state of certain schizophrenic patients and enable nursing staff to early intervention.View full abstractDownload PDF (704K)
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