International Journal of Stress Management

[Kim Connor]

The International Journal of Stress Management is a methodical journal
for experts treating personal and occupational stress. The journal
comprises "peer-reviewed" first-rate original articles including
reviews, theoretical, historical, and empirical articles, in addition
to editorials and book reviews. Some areas of interest take in "stress
and trauma assessment", "stress and trauma management", stress
management, and treatment issues.
Released as a quarterly journal, it is also the official publication
of the International Stress Management Association or ISMA. ISMA is a
nonprofit organization committed to "working for a less stressful
world". The organization seeks to press forward the education of
students and professionals, as well as make possible methodological
sound research within the wide field of "interdisciplinary stress
management", which includes psychology, dentistry, medicine, physical
therapy, education, occupational therapy, speech therapy, business and
industry, and psychiatry.
The International Journal of Stress Management, issue 4 Volume 13
(November 2006), includes articles reflecting on different issues in
stress management internationally and areas of stress, on top of four
articles that centers specifically on stress in the "policing"
profession. Some of the articles found in this issue include:
Prominent Consequences of Role Stress: A Meta-Analytic Review This
journal article focuses on "role stress". The article examines well-
know effects of role stress, specifically centered on researching
dissimilarity in relationships between aspects of role stress, and
regularly cited effects through the use of the meta-analysis
techniques.
Emotional Disonnance, Burnout, and In-role Performance Among Nurses
and Police Officers The articles touch on two studies -101 police
officers and 108 nurses tested the suggestion that "emotionally
demanding" connections with recipients can result to emotional
dissonance that may in turn, lead to impaired performance and job
burnout. Additionally, the authors foresee that "emotional dissonance"
would be unconstructively related to in-role performance in terms of
its association with burnout.
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease
in Police Officers The article centers on a present study that looks
at the connections of "posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms" to
"subclinical cardiovascular disease" in police officers. The study
showed that higher PTSD symptoms in the police sample were linked to
an almost double reduction in "brachial artery FMD" -a biomarker of
"subclinical cardiovascular disease.
The International Journal of Stress Management targets professionals
in the field of education, psychiatry, psychology, medicine, and
others "researching stress and treating stress". The International
Journal of Stress Management is distributed in hospitals, other health-
related institutes, and hospitals. The rate for subscription to the
journal is at $75 for organizations and $35 for individuals.