Lewis A Leitner

Biographic Data

ID6086982
NAMELewis A Leitner
GIVEN NAMESLewis A
FAMILY NAMELeitner
SIGNATURELEITNER L A
AFFILIATIONSRichard Stockton State College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
H-INDEX0

  • Diet, Cigarette Smoking, Stressful Life Events, and Subjective Feelings of Stress

    Open AccessIsrael Posner, Lewis A Leitner et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1994

    A study of 133 workers in an educational institution showed that poor nutritional habits and cigarette smoking were associated with greater subjective stress

  • Stress Scores of Workers by Sex and Age

    Open AccessD Lester, Israel Posner et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1986

  • Stress in Casino Floor Employees

    Open AccessIsrael Posner, Lewis A Leitner et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1985

    Many workers claim that their occupation is higldy stressful, but rarely are data provided to back up this claim. Casino floor employees (those who work as dealers and slot machine attendants) are among those who say their occupations are highly stressful. To test this claim, the scores of 130 casino floor employees (76 men and 54 women; Ma,, = 33.3 yr., SD = 6.7 yr.) on the stress profile provided by Girdano and Everly (1979) were compared with …

  • A note on locus of control and stress in police officers

    Open AccessDavid Lester, Lewis A Leitner et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community Psychology1985References: 6

  • Stress in Nurses and other Working Females

    Open AccessIsrael Posner, D Lester et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1984

    opinion. In the course of various training workshops on management of stress, an experimental stress profile (Girdano & Everly, 1979) was administered anonymously to 266 females (M.,. 36.6, SD = 11.9) who worked for a public utility company, hospitals, welfare agencies, casinos, county administrative offices, and college classes. This profile included self-re~ort measures of recent stressful life events (from Holrnes and Rahe's Scale), frustratio…

  • Recent Life Events and Stress Scores

    Open AccessD Lester, Lewis A Leitner et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1983

    Holmes and Rahe (1967) published a scale to measure the incidence and stressfulness of recent life events. The scale lists 43 events and assigns each event a point score ranging from 11 to 100. This scale was given to 244 employees from various organizations who attended training sessions for stress management. They were employees at all levels in public utilities, hospitals, law enforcement departments and welfare agencies. Their mean age was 38…

  • Stress in Lower and Upper Echelon Staff

    Open AccessIsrael Posner, D Lester et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1983

  • Item-Analysis of a Stress Scale

    Open AccessIsrael Posner, D Lester et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1983

    In the course of a series of stress management training seminars, a stress profile has been administered to 242 employees of public utilities, hospitals, casinos, law enforcement agencies, and welfare agencies (Lester, et al., 1982). This stress profile (Girdano & Everly, 1977) has seven subtests; each of 10 items length. The seven subtests' measure frustration tolerance, time pressure, boredom/loneliness, poor nutrition, lack of self-confidence,…

  • Components of Stress

    Open AccessDavid Lester, Lewis A Leitner et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1982