Acute aerobic exercise: an intervention for the selective visual attention and reading comprehension of low-income adolescents
Exercise improves your attention and comprehension abilities.
Exercise improves your attention and comprehension abilities.
There is a strong positive relationship between the restorative properties of off-job activities and an employee’s work performance.
This study showed strong relations between sleep quality, occupational stress, fatigue, perseverative cognitions, and work motivation, which support effort-recovery theory.
Results of this study showed that participants who took part in a 1 day CBT workshop reported significantly lower levels of affective rumination and chronic fatigue at follow-up in comparison with individuals who did not attend the workshop.
Spending as little as 30 minutes in nature can improve your short term memory by as much as 20%, reduce mental fatigue and improve focus.
Spending as little as 10 minutes in a green or nature-filled setting reduced the effects of physical and mental stress.
Being part of the always-on culture leads to higher stress levels, greater conflict, more distractions, and increased difficulty focusing.
55% of workers feel they can’t switch off from work (e.g. they feel pressure to check work emails or calls outside working hours).
Individuals who feel that they sufficiently recover during leisure time experience a higher level of work engagement during the subsequent work day.
This high level of work engagement in turn helps them in taking initiative and pursuing learning goals.
Recovering from work stress can restore energy and mental resources and decrease the development of fatigue, sleep disorders and cardiovascular disease.