This includes worries about work, which often leads to impatient or irritable behaviour at home (Schulz et al. 2004).
This can cause confusion and possibly annoyance, when in reality he or she prefers to bottle up stress at work, which may result in irritable behaviour instead.
Teachers are also concerned about the impact on pupil behaviour, reporting that pupils become irritable and in some cases aggressive with each other, Ms Keates added.
Things started to happen that couldn't be easily explained – absences from high-profile appearances, erratic behaviour – and friends grew uncharacteristically irritable when pressed about that, as if searching for ways to protect him without lying.
Those who work in highly competitive industries, known for a "work hard, play hard" culture that revolves significantly around alcohol, are often found to have a "type A" behaviour pattern defined by aggressive, irritable personality traits and an overwhelming drive to try and achieve more and more targets in increasingly smaller amounts of time.
Psychosocial factors may also influence the health care seeking behaviours in addition to the irritable bowel syndrome itself.
The Irritable Bowel Syndrome-Behavioural Responses Questionnaire, 32 a 26 item scale that measures changes in behaviour specific to managing IBS symptoms.
Recent Australian research shows that mothers and fathers who are fatigued are using more irritable, frustrated and impatient parenting behaviours directed towards their child [ 3].
Dorte Jarbol is a GP, PhD and senior researcher in studies of symptoms and health care seeking behaviour with special focus on cancer alarm symptoms, irritable bowel syndrome and dyspepsia in population and primary care studies.
Manic behaviour involves a period in which an expansive, elevated, or irritable mood persists abnormally.
