Individual differences in delayed heart-rate recovery following stress: The role of extraversion, neuroticism and emotional control

Internet-based instructor-led mindfulness for work-related rumination, fatigue, and sleep: Assessing facets of mindfulness as mechanisms of change. A randomized waitlist control trial.

“…It is also associated with increased physical symptom reporting (Hazlett & Haynes, 1992), intrusive off-task thoughts (Sarason, Pierce, & Sarason, 1996), negative self-evaluations, diminished feelings of control and feelings of helplessness (Lyubomirsky, Kasri, & Zehm, 2003). Furthermore, laboratory studies have shown prolonged physiological arousal and delayed recovery in individuals who ruminate (Roger & Jamieson, 1988) and many studies show that rumination interferes with sleep (Akerstedt et al, 2002;Berset, Elfering, Luthy, Luthi, & Semmer, 2011;Cropley et al, 2006;Querstret & Cropley, 2012;Thomsen, Mehlsen, Christensen, & Zachariae, 2003;Thomsen, Mehlsen, Hokland, Viidik, Olesen, Arlund et al, 2004;Zoccola, Dickerson, & Lam, 2009). 9 Fatigue, sleep and recovery from work Fatigue, driven by increased psychophysiological workload and reduced sleep, has been recognised as a major consequence of increased work intensity (Harma, Kompier, & Vahtera, 2006).…”

Assessing treatments used to reduce rumination and/or worry: A systematic review

“…Research regarding rumination and/or worry has been dominated by clinical/health psychology, with rumination and worry thought to be implicated in the aetiology of a number of psychological disorders, e.g., depression and anxiety (Lyubomirsky, Caldwall, & NolenHoeksema, 1998;Mellings & Alden, 2000), and associated with increased physical symptom reporting (Hazlett & Haynes, 1992), intrusive off-task thoughts (Sarason, Pierce, & Sarason, 1996), negative self-evaluations, diminished feelings of control and feelings of helplessness (Lyubomirsky, Kasri, & Zehm, 2003). Furthermore, laboratory studies have shown prolonged physiological arousal and delayed recovery in individuals who ruminate or who are asked to recall stressful events (Glynn, Christenfeld, & Gerin, 2002;Ironson et al, 1992;Lampert, Jain, Burg, Batsford, & McPherson, 2000;Roger & Jamieson, 1988). Barlow & DiNardo (1991) proposed that worry is "fundamentally a presenting characteristic of all anxiety disorders with the possible exception of simple phobia" (p. 115); and worry also occurs frequently in major depression (Chelminski & Zimmerman, 2003).…”

“…Furthermore, trait rumination has been associated with slower HR recovery after cognitive stress tasks (Roger & Jamieson, 1988); and state, but not trait, worry has been related to high HR (Dua & King, 1987). Elevated BP has also been associated with anticipation before emotional events in several studies; e.g., in students anticipating oral defence of their PhD (van Doornen & van Blokland, 1992), prior to dental treatment (Brand et al, 1995), and mental arithmetic (Contrada, Wright & Glass, 1984).…”

Exploring predictors and consequences of embitterment in the workplace

“…Employees do not fully detach from their work unless they stop thinking of work-related issues in non-working time (Rook and Zijlstra, 2006). Prolonged physiological arousal and delayed recovery from stress has been linked to individuals' unintentional persistent thoughts, termed as rumination (Roger and Jamieson, 1988). Work-related rumination refers to the repetitive thinking about work-related issues when the individual actually abstains from demands necessitating these thoughts and has thus been conceptualised as a "proxy of insufficient recovery" (Cropley and Millward Purvis, 2003, 197).…”