Hydratkomplexe in wäßrigen Tensidsystemen

In memoriam Dr. Ing. Mathieu Quaedvlieg     

Work stress and the stress-buffering roles of work and family resources

This paper describes the development of the Work Environment Scale, which includes measures of perceived stressful and supportive aspects of the job milieu. This scale is used to examine stressful effects of the work environment on personal functioning and the stress-buffering value of work and family social resources among a representative community group of men and women. Work stressors had a greater impact on men, but supportive social resources provided more attenuation of such effects among men than among women. Although work stressors generally had less effect on men whose wives were employed, high stress in the women's work settings had some indirect negative consequences for their husbands. Reprint requests should be directed to the authors, Social Ecology Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A.     

Coping with an intra-institutional relocation: behavioral change as a function of residents' personal resources

A model of person-environment interaction was used to help explain the impact of an intra-institutional relocation on the behavior of residents who varied in mobility and mental status. Environmental measures indicated that the new building provided more prosthetic features, fewer orientational aids, a more complex floorplan, and increased distance between the social areas and the nurses' stations. Behavioral observations of a sample of 17 residents showed varying adaptations to these environmental changes. Wheelchair-mobile residents benefited from the improved accessibility, whereas immobile residents experienced reduced stimulation and further restriction of their spatial range. High mental status residents were drawn out of their bedrooms into social spaces. while low mental status residents spent less time in social areas and more in the halls near the nurses' stations, where they could maintain contact with the staff. Information such as this on the differential impact of a new building can contribute to the design process and to program modification aimed at optimizing resident functioning.