Essential job characteristics like, demand, control and support in the workplace affect the employees' health (Trybou et al. 2014). ... To achieve in having a healthy psychological well being, jobs need to have more than just the absence of negative characteristics. ... Thus, combination of organizational culture and organizational characteristics such as good leadership can reduce mental strain (Donoso et al. 2015). ... Positive feelings and laughter are connected to be valuable to physical and emotional aspects (Jackson, Firtko & Edenborough 2007). ... Moreover, seeking for a c...

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(i) The biological model focuses on genetics, neurotransmitters, brain changes, and other physical factors. ... (ii) The psychodynamic model focuses on internal personality characteristics. ... According to Abnormal Psychology and Life: A Dimensional Approach (Kearney & Trull, 2012), a risk factor is an individual or environmental characteristic that precedes a mental disorder and is correlated with that disorder. ... Physical feelings may include heart racing, sweating, dry mouth, shaking, dizziness, and other unpleasant symptoms. ... Somatization disorder is a chronic condition which an indi...

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These types of disorders are characteristic of the central nervous system's physiological and emotional response to a vague sense of threat or danger as a central symptom . ... With the results of his research, Herek has compiled the following list of characteristics of a true homophobic individual. He states that a homophobe is : 1. likely to have less contact with homosexuals 2. less likely to report having engaged in homosexual behavior or to identify as a homosexual 3. more likely to perceive their peers as manifesting negative attitudes 4. more likely to have been raised in envi...

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Goffman related stigma as a characteristic that is extremely shameful. ... Physical Appearance: Goffman uses the word of "abominations" of the body" that means that the person is loathing, disgust and can be a cause of nausea. ... Some of the visible characteristics clearly states that those people are stigmatized like embarrassment, frightening, bias, angriness, and stereotyping. ... "People with mental illnesses experience all of the key features of the stigma process; they are officially tagged and labeled, set apart, connected to undesirable characteristics, and broadly...

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They express excessive apprehension with a non-existent physical defect and become so preoccupied that they act upon many time-consuming rituals of to try and fix the defect and incessantly check their appearances. ... BDD is characterized with OCD because the patient has an obsession with a certain aspect of their physical appearance, and performs such rituals to mask or fix a flaw. ... Both OCD and BDD have early onset, a characteristically chronic course, and occurs equivalently in both men and women. ... Standard concerns for women tend to be the hips, skin, breasts and legs, whereas in m...

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Some specific forms result from brain injury due to physical trauma or drug effects. ... In the same way that people inherit genes that control height and eye color, biosocial theorists believe that antisocial behavior characteristics may be inherited (Siegel & Senna, 1991, p.96). ... Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck (1974, p. 2) identified a number of personality characteristics that characterize delinquents:  Self-assertiveness  Defiance  Extroversion  Suspicion  Defiance ...

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) people may have up to 100 different personalities but that number is closer to 15, with this disorder the different personalities may have whole personalities with a different voice, clothing and characteristics that are very distinct for that personality. ... The characteristics of MPD and DID are that it affects persons that have suffered from trauma and abuse. ... Sybil suffered severe trauma and physical abuse from the hand of her mother, and without the protection of her father. ... They were both male and female and had many different stronger charact...

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A disorder of the mind and body, physical chemical changes in the body occur, and the longer these changes persist the more difficult it is to undo. ... Many of these service members self-medicate in quiet desperation in order to alleviate the mental and physical pain that they suffer from. ... Optimism, self-reliance, and flexible gender roles: These characteristics are all predictive of successful coping during a deployment. ...

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(www.nmha.org, Personality Disorder) It is very common for different characteristics and aspects of each category to intertwine with another personality disorder, because of this it is very hard to categories any specific disorder. ... Another theory is that abuse, such as physical, psychological, sexual or substance abuse contributes to the onset of ASPD. ... Each of these five movies deals with characteristics of Antisocial Personality Disorders (In each of the five movies they describe the disorder as sociopath or psychopath, which are synonyms for Antisocial Personality Disorder) ...

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Finally, other typical behaviors in adolescents affected by conduct disorder include: truancy, lying and stealing, engaging in physical fights, a tendency to run away, lighting fires, cruelty to animals, a tendency to use drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes at a early age, low self-esteem, learning difficulties, and aggression to others (Colman, 2003). ...

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Other than the institution or staff being a reason for prison suicide, mental and social characteristics also play a role in giving an inmate a higher risk to suicide. ... Poor health, physiological problems, and possibly the physical state of one makes an inmate depressed enough to kill himself (Frickey). ... He provides many strategies that can be used to change a person's suicidal thoughts in jail whether it be mental or physical, it is a sure step to fixing the inmates. ...

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Hinshaw suggested that a commonly attempted explanations for behaviors characteristic of mental disorders and illnesses are the belief that the conditions and behaviors associated with untreated disorder are the result of demonic possession or influence or the work of mysterious "evil" forces, and the idea that the behaviors are the result of contagious disease or physical ailment (54). ...

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Abstract Depression is more than just sadness and can have a serious impact on one's life, it is a debilitating disease. This paper will explain how depression has been treated throughout mankind. It will explore the understandings of how depressions was discovered and what people believed triggered...

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Having no gender, it may have characteristics of a male or of a female. ... It creates them to assure the physical safety of the person, because a person who has had a traumatic experience may wish to commit suicide or harm themselves to deal with it. ...

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I realize the importance of the medical view and making the general public aware of the medical characteristics, however the chapters about the medical issues were not as interesting to me. ... Patty also exhibited physical symptoms too. ...

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