What is it about?
Daily activities such as work, rest, and leisure can affect how stressed people feel. This study found that much of this relationship may be explained by how demanding people perceive their entire day to be, suggesting that reducing daily workload could help lower stress.
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Why is it important?
Stress is often addressed by changing how much people work or encouraging more leisure, but this study suggests that how demanding the entire day feels may be just as important. Reducing unnecessary mental, physical, and time demands throughout the day (i.e., various dimensions of perceived workload) could be an effective way to reduce stress.
Perspectives
This paper was the last one of my dissertation. I thought it was a powerful idea that, aside from more common ways of coping with stress like use of calming strategies or watching cooking shows on streaming sites, targeting different aspects of workload perception (e.g., mental demands, physical demands, time pressure, etc.) could also be a viable approach (though further research is needed). The power in part stems from the implication that practitioners with expertise in ergonomics may also have a role to play in stress management, aside from their more common role of helping prevent musculoskeletal disorders.
Raymond Hernandez
University of Southern California
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This page is a summary of: Perception of whole day workload as a mediator between activity engagement and stress in workers with type 1 diabetes, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, November 2022, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1463922x.2022.2149878.
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