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- Title
Vacation Effects on Behaviour, Cognition and Emotions of Compulsive and Non-compulsive Workers: Do Obsessive Workers Go 'Cold Turkey'?
- Authors
Bloom, Jessica; Radstaak, Mirjam; Geurts, Sabine
- Abstract
Compulsive workers often face psychological and physical health disturbances because of working long hours and an obsessive preoccupation with work during off-job time. Prolonged respite episodes may either relief these employees from their daily stressors to recover or trigger withdrawal symptoms. Our research question was as follows: How do (1) work hours, (2) rumination and (3) affective well-being unfold for compulsive workers compared with non-compulsive workers across long vacations? In a longitudinal field study, work hours, rumination and affective well-being were assessed in 54 employees 2 weeks before, during and in the first, second and fourth week after a long summer vacation. Working compulsively was assessed 3 weeks before vacation. Work hours decreased during and increased after vacation. Levels of rumination dropped during vacation and remained below baseline until 2 weeks after vacation. Initial differences in rumination between obsessive and non-obsessive workers disappeared during and directly after vacation. Affective well-being rose during vacation and returned to baseline directly after vacation. Increases in affective well-being during vacation as well as decreases after vacation were greater in obsessive workers than in non-obsessive workers. Vacations seem to temporarily offset characteristic differences between obsessive and non-obsessive workers, decrease rumination and improve affective well-being. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; WORK &; psychology; ANALYSIS of variance; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder; RESEARCH funding; SCALE analysis (Psychology); STATISTICS; VACATIONS; DATA analysis; FIELD research; WELL-being; REPEATED measures design; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PSYCHOLOGICAL factors
- Publication
Stress & Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress, 2014, Vol 30, Issue 3, p232
- ISSN
1532-3005
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/smi.2600