ABSTRACT
Working is man's wealth. His work has shaped the world as it is. But modern work, technology, artificial light, after splitting up tasks, threaten the "synchronous" progress of days and seasons. Working time is more and more reduced, moved forward or back, sensorially isolated, socially "sterilized", with high production rates etc... Under the domination of the production/consumption scheme, man's appetites have been released; his needs have increased; he no longer bears any lack, failure or frustration. Thus, the usual forms of working time organization, with their arbitrary divisions, the monotony, repetitiveness and other restricting factors (stress), not only do not contribute to self-realization, but create rancor, boredom and drama. Man's time is not only the time of the clocks, il is also experience, anticipation, memory. The psychopathological risk is the "burning out" of the subject, and the defences developed against it, such as humour (casualness), aloofness (abdication), deviance and drug-dependence. Prevention supposes some other time, with more freedom, to favour self-realization. One of the first tasks of tomorrow's medicine will be to reconcile working and non-working time.
Subject(s)
Burnout, Professional/psychology , Chronobiology Phenomena , Ergonomics , Stress, Psychological/psychology , Work , Boredom , Defense Mechanisms , Humans , Mental Health , Self ConceptSubject(s)
Depression/psychology , Stress, Psychological/psychology , Work , Concept Formation , Humans , Psychological TheorySubject(s)
Adjustment Disorders/prevention & control , Burnout, Professional/prevention & control , Occupational Diseases/psychology , Social Environment , Stress, Psychological/prevention & control , Work , Acculturation , Adjustment Disorders/etiology , Adult , Anxiety Disorders/etiology , Community Psychiatry/trends , Depressive Disorder/etiology , Female , Humans , Interpersonal Relations , Loneliness , Male , Middle Aged , Neurotic Disorders/etiology , Personality Development , Psychopathology , Social Adjustment , TechnologySubject(s)
Career Mobility , Population Dynamics , Stress, Psychological , Transients and Migrants/psychology , Adaptation, Psychological , Adult , Female , Humans , Life Style , Male , Middle AgedSubject(s)
Employment , Mental Health , Occupations , Health , Humans , Psychology, Industrial , Stress, PsychologicalABSTRACT
An international survey of the biological and psychosocial components of students unrest has been conducted these past years. It is known as the "Bios" study. It showed that the psychosocial factors are more prevalent. This is a side study, mainly methodological, on a sample of students from the University of Brussels in Belgium. It uses a mental health indicator and a satisfaction/unsatisfaction scale. Preventive suggestions are issued after a factor analysis. Though the main purpose of this paper is to provide a method for further similar studies.
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Emotions , Students/psychology , Belgium , Humans , Mental Health , Statistics as Topic , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
From A. Abraham's questionnaire exploring the professional Self of teachers, we determined, after standardisation with a french group of teachers, a much shorter bipolar satisfaction-dissatisfaction scale. Next, we compared the results between the israëli and the french teachers, then between a group of so called normal teachers and a group of teachers suffering from various mental troubles. We noted with satisfaction the close relations between the results of the test and the clinical opinions. This helps much in coping with teachers' psychotherapy and rehabilitation. Several examples and a bibliography are given.
