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Subjective and objective stress in construction cost estimation

Leung, Mei-Yung; Skitmore, Martin; Chan, Yee Shan - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 10, pp. 1063-1075

involved are therefore likely to experience a considerable amount of mental and emotional stress as a result of inaccurate … estimation. The types of stress can be divided into objective stress (OS), subjective stress (SS) and emotional exhaustion (EE … identify differences between the professional estimators and other personnel, and the types of stress endured. The results …

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The experience of burnout among future construction professionals: a cross-national study

Lingard, Helen Clare; Yip, Brenda; Rowlinson, Steve; … - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 4, pp. 345-357

A survey of undergraduate students in Australia and Hong Kong revealed that a specially adapted version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (the MBI-SS) possesses good internal consistency reliability among construction students. A three-component model of student burnout, comprising emotional...

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Measuring subcompositional incoherence

Greenacre, Michael - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

the full composition. The closeness of these two matrices can be quantified using a stress measure that is common in …

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A Model of Ethical Decision Making: The Integration of Process and Content

McDevitt, Roselie; Giapponi, Catherine; Tromley, Cheryl - In: Journal of Business Ethics 73 (2007) 2, pp. 219-229

We develop a model of ethical decision making that integrates the decision-making process and the content variables considered by individuals facing ethical dilemmas. The process described in the model is drawn from Janis and Mannâ€™s [1977, Decision Making: A Psychological Analysis of...

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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the … increase in individual stress after the economic, cultural and political consequences of reunification. …

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MANAGING STRESS - THE KEY TO ORGANIZATIONAL WELLNESS

Mirela, Bucurean - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 4 (2009) 1, pp. 112-116

ever before. The impact of stress on profitability, whether creative or negative, must be understood, measured and managed …

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AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS AND AGRICULTURE VULNERABILITY

Singh, Mahesh Kumar; Dobo, Erika - In: GAZDÁLKODÁS: Scientific Journal on Agricultural Economics 51 (2008) 19

This review describes that due to rapid globalization, vulnerability in different areas affects human life. With rapid population growth, securing the inherent vulnerability of this relationship, whether social, economic, or environmental, has to be central to efforts to achieving sustainable...

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Risk starvation contributes to dementias and depressions: Whiffs of danger are the antidote

Pope, Robin - University of Bonn, Germany - 2009

starvation. In both drug and psychotherapeutic stress research and treatments of the depressed and demented, there should be …

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Strategies and politics of ocupational stress reduction – case study

Sima, Mihaela-Georgia; Bârsan, Simona-Clara - In: Studies and Scientific Researches. Economics Edition (2010) 15

concepts such as: stress, stress management, counseling and organizational change. In the case study these elements are applied …

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Paternal Psychosocial Characteristics and Corporal Punishment of their 3-Year Old Children

Lee, Shawna J.; Perron, Brian E.; Taylor, Catherine A.; … - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009

controlling for important socio-demographic factors as well as characteristics of the child, fathers’ parenting stress, major …

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