title: When nurses cry: coping with occupational stress in Thailand.
abstract: Anecdotal reports of people feeling better after they cry support theories that link crying to the reduction of stress after a period of prolonged sympathetic activation. A sample of 200 nurses were asked to rate their occupational stress, job satisfaction, and crying as a coping strategy. Crying was found to be an important symptom of home/work conflicts and pressures related to dealing with patients, but did not substantially reduce these sources of stress. Supporting the stress-buffering hypothesis, nurses with lower intrinsic job satisfaction seemed to benefit from emotional crying whereas dissatisfied nurses who cry infrequently reported the highest levels of stress.
authors.affiliation: Burapha University, Bangsaen, Chonburi, Thailand.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pongruengphant
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Tyson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003448:Crying; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013785:Thailand