June 2006 No 85, 2006/2 - 86 pagesEditorialPages 4 to 4Conference on qualitative researchBy Monique FormarierDiscussionPages 5 to 13Stress, health, and the role of the personality: Some tools for assessing personalityBy Marcel LourelMethodologyPages 14 to 21The question of observation scales from the human sciences applied to healthBy Dominique DesjeuxPages 22 to 35Analytic techniques for survey data: The example of artificial insemination and donor anonymity—Or, how to clarify a social debateBy Philippe CiboisPages 36 to 45Humor in the nurse-patient relationship: Literature reviewBy Hélène Patenaude, Louise Hamelin-BrabantResearchPages 46 to 64Factors connected to the premature abandonment of nursing careers: Confirmation of their impact after a year through a longitudinal analysis of carers in the PRESST/NEXT studyBy Carine Jasseron, Madeleine Estryn-Béhar, Olivier Le Nézet, Isabelle RahhaliPages 65 to 76From providing care to thinking about health care, or the difficulty in putting nursing practice “into words”By Marie-André Vigil-RipocheVariaPages 77 to 85What is the place of the health care executive in the internal contract formalization process?By Lydie Rivaldi
