Tournament incentives affect perceived stress and hormonal stress responses

Abstract

1 Chronic stress, i.e. exposure to stress over longer periods of time, is detrimental to physiological and psychological health, contributing to cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus and mental disorders (see e.g. Cohen et al., 2007;McEwen, 2008). In Europe, for example, the cost of mental health disorders is estimated at EUR 240 billion per year (EU-OSHA, 2013). These figures do not take into account additional individual costs of stress due to reduced quality of life and its burden on caretakers and families. In addition, stress arguably affects the quality of economic decision-making (Mani

Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision

“…7 Participants answered the respective questions before task onset to measure subjective anticipatory stress. We also surveyed subjective stress perceptions and other feelings before and after the task Dohmen et al, 2023 ). The respective statement referring to stress before task onset is 'Right now I feel stressed' with an affirmation scale ranging from 'not at all' (1) to 'completely' (5).…”