Read a new study.
Why you don’t want to work out after work may be because you have a stressful job and not much flexible autonomy.
The German researchers took 251 subjects and asked them to pretend to work in a customer service center. The subjects were required to respond to customer emails or phone calls, and also to calculate some of the mathematical problems related to product pricing and promotions.
In the first experiment, the subjects were divided into high stress and low stress groups.
In the “high stress” group, the customers were not satisfied, the math problems were difficult, and the subjects were asked to “serve with a smile”.
In the “low stress” group, the customers were friendlier, the math problems were easier, and the subjects were only asked to “serve with a smile”.
After work, the researcher invited the subjects to exercise for as long as they wanted on the exercise bike in the break room, and to sit and read a magazine afterwards.
The results showed that people in the high-stress group spent significantly less time cycling than those in the low-stress group.
In the second experiment, the researchers grouped the subjects not only by stress, but also by “autonomic control”.
The “high autonomy” group could pick and choose which emails they wanted to respond to, in what order they wanted to respond, which client requests they wanted to address, and which math problems they wanted to do.
The “low autonomy” group had none of these rights and had to do whatever they were assigned.
After work, the subjects were also allowed to exercise for a while on the exercise bike in the break room, and afterwards they could sit and read a magazine.
The results showed that the autonomy of control would indirectly affect the cycling time.
If there is little autonomy at work, people will feel that “they can’t make decisions, they can’t make choices”, and this feeling will reduce people’s motivation, and thus also reduce the time to exercise.
This study shows that
①If you are stressed and unhappy at work, the feelings at work will actually “spill over” into your down time.
The more stressed you are at work, the less you can work out. The less you exercise, the worse your physical and mental health is, and the more stress you have at work. A vicious circle.
③ Being at the “bottom” itself will give rise to “laziness” and “mourning”. In a high stress, no autonomy and control environment, people will become unmotivated about life.
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