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Time for Self-Care: Downtime Recovery as a Buffer of Work and Home/Family Time Pressures



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  • Description:
    Objective: Opportunities for people to recover from stress are insufficient, because demanding and excessive life activities leave little time for recovery. Downtime is a self-care behavior that can occur in any life domain (ie, work, home/family, leisure). Methods: Using survey data from a cross-section of 422 U.S. workers, we tested hypotheses regarding downtime as a buffer of the effects of time pressure and whether downtime's benefits were related to the domain in which it was taken, or influenced by perceived time control. Results: In situations of high time pressure, work and home/family downtime were beneficial when time control was high, while relaxing leisure was beneficial when time control was low. Conclusions: Downtime is available whenever people recognize their need for recovery and respond by entering a state of physical relaxation and psychological detachment from stressors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • ISSN:
    1076-2752
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Journal Article
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Volume:
    59
  • Issue:
    4
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20063974
  • Citation:
    J Occup Environ Med 2017 Apr; 59(4):e46-e56
  • Contact Point Address:
    Alicia G. Dugan, PhD, University of Connecticut Health Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 263 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT 06030
  • Email:
    adugan@uchc.edu
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2017
  • Performing Organization:
    University of Connecticut Storrs
  • Peer Reviewed:
    True
  • Start Date:
    20050701
  • Source Full Name:
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • End Date:
    20250630
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:0f2acf21c8c8d9106468bb9bfbe5bf9383b2b363acba197d57bb16ea00c2462b7381e9256a43e0f5e0d69bb8a659c9870b3bac6a61388e524831809ad08e2a23
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