Overtime in Relation to Blood Pressure and Mood During Work, Leisure, and Night Time

Recovery as an explanatory mechanism in the relation between acute stress reactions and chronic health impairment

“…Her review also provided evidence that those who work long hours show sustained increases in heart rate and blood pressure (precursors of cardiovascular disease) and disturbance of the immune system, factors that point at incomplete physiological recovery. Recent diary studies have also revealed that working long hours or working overtime is associated with subjective indicators of poor recovery, such as difficulty to relax at home, negative affect, impaired well-being before bedtime, and low sleep quality (26,27,59).…”

Do We Recover from Vacation? Meta‐analysis of Vacation Effects on Health and Well‐being

“…However, as chronic incomplete recovery may manifest itself in a disturbed balance of sympathetic and parasympathetic activity, also during sleep e.g. [26][27][28][29][30] , a possibility for collecting physiological measures during a vacation period would be, for instance, during night time. During sleep, parasympathetic activation with its main restorative function should be dominant, but high blood pressure levels, high heart rate, low heart rate variability and high levels of catecholamine in morning urine would be strong markers of high sympathetic and low parasympathetic activation, and thus, indicative of disturbed restorative functions and incomplete recovery.…”

Recovery intention: its association with fatigue in the working population

“…Recovery typically occurs during rest breaks at work (Tucker et al 2003;Faucett et al 2007), post-work leisure and sleep time (Rau and Triemer 2004;Sonnentag et al 2008), weekends (Rook and Zijlstra 2006;Fritz and Sonnentag 2005) and vacations (Strauss-Blasche et al 2000;de Bloom et al 2009) and is associated with others with a decrease in fatigue. For recovery to occur, however, the exposure to the factors taxing the individual's resources must be terminated, i.e.…”

“…the individual has to take a respite from work (Eden 2001a, b). Therefore, individuals omitting these opportunities for recovery by continuing work will obviously not experience recovery, as has been shown for various potential recovery opportunities (Sonnentag and Zijlstra 2006;Sonnentag 2001;Rau and Triemer 2004;Strauss-Blasche et al 2000). Instead, their levels of fatigue will remain unchanged at an increased level.…”