Download or read book Cognitive Effects of Stress on Academic Performance written by Brittney Nicole Hicken and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to determine if there are short-term effects of meditation on cognition and the stress response (heart rate, blood pressure, and perceived level of stress) in students attending an open enrollment university. The research followed much of the study done by King and Coney (2006) to determine the short-term effects of meditation on cognition.
Download or read book Neural Plasticity and Memory written by Federico Bermudez-Rattoni and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, multidisciplinary review, Neural Plasticity and Memory: From Genes to Brain Imaging provides an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the study of the neurobiology of memory. Leading specialists share their scientific experience in the field, covering a wide range of topics where molecular, genetic, behavioral, and brain imaging techniq
Download or read book Health and Academic Achievement written by Blandina Bernal-Morales and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional, physical and social well-being describe human health from birth. Good health goes hand in hand with the ability to handle stress for the future. However, biological factors such as diet, life experiences such as drug abuse, bullying, burnout and social factors such as family and community support at the school stage tend to mold health problems, affecting academic achievements. This book is a compilation of current scientific information about the challenges that students, families and teachers face regarding health and academic achievements. Contributions also relate to how physical activity, psychosocial support and other interventions can be made to understand resilience and vulnerability to school desertion. This book will be of interest to readers from broad professional fields, non-specialist readers, and those involved in education policy.
Download or read book The Effects of Cognitive Hardiness on Stress Health Performance and Cardiovascular Neuroendocrine Function written by Jonathan Timothy Drummond and published by . This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive hardiness is a psychological construct of stress resiliency which has been postulated to moderate stress-illness and stress-performance relationships. Hardiness has also been thought to exert main effects on health and performance outcomes. In Study 1, relationships between hardiness, perceived stress, depression, and academic performance were investigated. Hardiness was found to be positively predictive of academic performance; the effect was partially mediated by course load. Hardiness was also revealed to moderate the stress-depression relationship. The negative relationship between stress and academic performance was mediated by depression. A model explaining 30% of the variance in academic performance is presented and discussed. Study 2 was an extensive exploratory effort that investigated the relationships between hardiness, stress, performance, illness/injury, appraisal processes, and physiological reactivity to a realistic stressor in 23 helicopter pilots. Main and moderating effects for hardiness were demonstrated in stress-performance and stress-illness relationships and outcomes. Hardiness was predictive of challenge appraisals, cortisol baselines and reactivity, and performance. Mediated relationships are discussed. Relations between cortisol reactivity and performance suggest profound and disturbing adverse impact on work-related cognitive function. Higher order curvilinear relationships between hardiness, cortisol reactivity, challenge appraisals, and performance were revealed. Implications, future research initiatives, and appropriate research designs are discussed. ANNOTATION: Reprint: he Effects of Cognitive Hardiness on Stress, Health, Performance, and Cardiovascular/Neuroendocrine Function.
Download or read book Educating the Student Body written by Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.
Download or read book Food Components to Enhance Performance written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The physiological or psychological stresses that employees bring to their workplace affect not only their own performance but that of their co-workers and others. These stresses are often compounded by those of the job itself. Medical personnel, firefighters, police, and military personnel in combat settingsâ€"among othersâ€"experience highly unpredictable timing and types of stressors. This book reviews and comments on the performance-enhancing potential of specific food components. It reflects the views of military and non-military scientists from such fields as neuroscience, nutrition, physiology, various medical specialties, and performance psychology on the most up-to-date research available on physical and mental performance enhancement in stressful conditions. Although placed within the context of military tasks, the volume will have wide-reaching implications for individuals in any job setting.
Download or read book Stress Concepts Cognition Emotion and Behavior written by George Fink and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior: Handbook in Stress Series, Volume 1, examines stress and its management in the workplace and is targeted at scientific and clinical researchers in biomedicine, psychology, and some aspects of the social sciences. The audience is appropriate faculty and graduate and undergraduate students interested in stress and its consequences. The format allows access to specific self-contained stress subsections without the need to purchase the whole nine volume Stress handbook series. This makes the publication much more affordable than the previously published four volume Encyclopedia of Stress (Elsevier 2007) in which stress subsections were arranged alphabetically and therefore required purchase of the whole work. This feature will be of special significance for individual scientists and clinicians, as well as laboratories. In this first volume of the series, the primary focus will be on general stress concepts as well as the areas of cognition, emotion, and behavior. Offers chapters with impressive scope, covering topics including the interactions between stress, cognition, emotion and behaviour Features articles carefully selected by eminent stress researchers and prepared by contributors representing outstanding scholarship in the field Includes rich illustrations with explanatory figures and tables Includes boxed call out sections that serve to explain key concepts and methods Allows access to specific self-contained stress subsections without the need to purchase the whole nine volume Stress handbook series
Download or read book Performance Under Stress written by Dr James L Szalma and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is a dangerous place and recent events have served to make it less safe. There are many arenas of conflict and even combat across the world. Such situations are the quintessential expression of stress; you stand in imminent danger and live with the knowledge that you may be attacked, injured or even killed at any moment. How do people perform under these conditions? How do they keep a heightened level of vigilance when nothing may happen in their immediate location for weeks or even months? What happens when the bullets actually start flying? How is it you distinguish friend from foe, and each from innocent bystanders when in immediate peril of your life? Can we design technology to help people make good decisions in these ultimately hazardous situations? To what degree does your membership in a team act to dissipate these particular effects? Can we generate sufficiently stressful field exercises to simulate these conditions and can we train and/or select those most able to withstand such adverse conditions? How will the next generation of servicemen deal with these inherent problems? These are the sorts of questions that Performance Under Stress addresses. This book is derived largely from a multiple-year, multiple university initiative (MURI) on stress and soldier performance on the modern, electronic battlefield. It involved leading researchers from many institutions who have brought their individual expertise to bear on these crucial, contemporary concerns. United by a common research framework, these groups attacked the issue from different methodological and conceptual approaches, ranging from traditional laboratory modeling and experimentation, to realistic simulations; from involved field exercises to personal experiences of actual combat conditions. The insights generated have been distilled and presented as a benchmark of current understanding and provide future directions for research in this arena. Although this work focuses on soldier stress and soldier performance, the principles that are derived extend well beyond this single application. Their findings can be applied to people facing the demands of the business world or research as much as to those who meet life or death situations, such as homeland security, first responders, and law enforcement personnel.
Download or read book Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase Activating Polypeptide written by Hubert Vaudry and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide is the first volume to be written on the neuropeptide PACAP. It covers all domains of PACAP from molecular and cellular aspects to physiological activities and promises for new therapeutic strategies. Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide is the twentieth volume published in the Endocrine Updates book series under the Series Editorship of Shlomo Melmed, MD.
Download or read book Stress and Performance in Sport written by J. Graham Jones and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1993-01-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers both theoretical and practical aspects of sports psychology. The first section is devoted to an examination of the relationship between competitive stress and performance, identifying areas that have attracted significant research. It also discusses recent models of stress and performance as well as laboratory-based research, including examination of the differential effects of multidimensional anxiety components, the application of catastrophe theory and reversal theory to stress in sport. The second section focuses on stress management and self-regulation in sport. It discusses goal-setting as a motivation and self-confidence enhancer, anxiety reduction techniques for particular symptoms and the possible mediating role of cognitions in sport performance. Mental training programs for coping with stress and the reasons behind the success of performance routines are also considered. A final section discusses future research directions.
Download or read book Acceptance and Mindfulness in Cognitive Behavior Therapy written by James D. Herbert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Acceptance and Mindfulness in Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Understanding and Applying the New Therapies "One of the most fruitful aspects of the encounter between classical Buddhist knowledge and modern science has been the emergence of new therapeutic and educational approaches that integrate contemplative practice, such as mindfulness, and contemporary psychology methods, such as those of cognitive therapy. The systematic approach of this book, wherein the insights of both classical Buddhist and contemporary psychology are integrated, represents a most beneficial and powerful method of ensuring a healthy mind and heart." —His Holiness the Dalai Lama "What has been missing in the midst of partisan battles between orthodox CBT therapists and enthusiastic proponents of newer acceptance/mindfulness approaches is a reasoned, scientifically grounded discourse that would help researchers and clinicians alike sort through the various claims and counterclaims. This book, skillfully conceived and edited by James Herbert and Evan Forman, provides just such a sober and open-minded appraisal of a trend that has sometimes suffered both from too much hype from one side and too sweeping a rejection by the other. This volume encourages careful consideration of both positions and can advance evidence-based psychosocial therapy both conceptually and procedurally to the benefit of all." —From the Foreword by Gerald C. Davison, PhD, University of Southern California Acceptance and Mindfulness in Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Understanding and Applying the New Therapies brings together a renowned group of leading figures in CBT who address key issues and topics, including: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy Metacognitive therapy Mindfulness-based stress reduction Dialectical behavior therapy Understanding acceptance and commitment therapy in context
Download or read book Mere Presence Effects on Student Stress and Cognitive Performance written by Leah Saulter and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of temporary examination stress on biochemical parameters in academic students written by Mahdi Badrie and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Chemistry - Bio-chemistry, , language: English, abstract: The present study was designed to investigate the effect of temporary examination stress on some biochemical parameters in sera of fifty five apparently healthy undergraduate students with age range (19- 24) years and (23.9 ± 2.13 kg/m2) body mass index, they were from University of Baghdad, College of Science; specialty from Mathematic, Physics, Geology, Biotechnology Departments, and also from Al-Esraa College, Medical Analysis Department. To compare the results, blood samples were obtained from the undergraduate students in two days, the first day was a normal day (Nday) and the second day was after 7-15 days, in the morning before the written exam (Eday). Based on gender, blood types, Rh blood type, exam performance, and the first semester score, the students were classified into several subgroups.
Download or read book Well Being Over the Life Course written by Regina M. Bures and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of the impact of human–animal interaction on well-being from childhood to later life. It presents a life course perspective to the study of human–animal interaction, addressing concepts of family and the role of pets therein, as well as the impact of companion animals on child development and successful aging. This book fills a gap in the existing literature by framing the study of human–animal interaction, including the role of animal-assisted interventions on well-being, in a broader social and behavioral context.
Download or read book Stress and Students written by Dr. Anil Kumar Agnihotri and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century has been called the 'Age of enlightenment' the 18th 'The Age of Reason', the 19th 'Age of progress' and the 20th 'The Age of Anxiety' (Calbraith 1977). The 21st 'Technology Revolution' Marked by knowledge revolution, the information explosion and the associated acceleration of changes in technology, social structure, occupations and organizations make for an increasing demands on the individual's capacity to adapt, resulting difficulty in finding a harmony between the individual and the environment which causes a disequilibrium in the body, mind and soul of the individual referred as 'stress'. It is an unavoidable feature of modern living. Since it affects all age groups of the population it needs to be fought, investigated and managed to have a balanced and healthy society.
Download or read book Delay Stress And Anxiety Related Academic Performance Among University Students written by Rizvi Syed and published by Techroot. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTION AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE 1.1 Background of the Study In today's scenario people are facing a number of problems related with mental health and these are linked with physical health as well. Some of the problems are behavioral problems cause unhealthily consequences: academic, social, financial and emotional. Behavioral problems have an effect on performance, outcomes and productivity. Everything is ultimately depend on better performance, poorer performance are the indicator of decline in Success. In academic environment, Students are facing multiple problems that have overt and covert effects on their performance .In Educational institutions every academic performance summarized into an academic score, marks, and GPA scores. These are the well established, frequently used methods for the better judgment of individual intellect, skills and over all achievements. In Academic setting, administration use different type of analytical, rational and performance oriented weekly test, assignments, laboratory works, from quarterly to final, it will added up and comprises into a single grade, score and percentile of that year. These precise numbers are the best explanation of persons overall performance throughout year. Thus, we can finalize the academic achievement on that measure. There are many implicit /explicit factors that have an inflicting reaction on person's outcomes. College success also depends on the successfully managed these influential variables. Meanwhile, some of the variables have facilitating influence on performance and it will substantially enhance the academic achievement. These variables includes self-efficacy, self control, meta cognition, extracurricular activities, intelligence, creativity, etc. while some variables high in,
Download or read book Effects of brain trauma on learning outcomes written by Difrine Madara and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Psychology - Developmental Psychology, grade: A, Kenyatta University, language: English, abstract: Brain trauma can occur at any stage of a person’s life. Among learners, there are several events in their day to day activities, including concussion, maltreatment, physical activities, and toxic stress that may result in brain trauma. Traumatic brain injury may involve a violent blow or jolt on the head. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can also be caused by an object that is able to penetrate brain tissue. Concussion and other traumatic experiences profoundly limit brain development among children thus hampering their cognitive functions. The growing volume of the literature suggests that concussion adversely impacts various aspects of lives, including home, school, and social relationships among children and adolescents. According to a 2013 clinical report of the American Academy of Pediatrics, there are potential vulnerabilities to academic functioning following concussion. Multiple qualitative studies indicated that children may suffer from several post-concussion symptoms, such as headaches, fatigue, slowed processing of information and impaired concentration, which negatively impact academic performance.
