Biomedical subjects

S Sonnentag

Publications and source records attributed to S Sonnentag.

4 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2001

Work, recovery activities, and individual well-being: a diary study.

This study extends previous research on respite from work and addresses the question of how individuals use their leisure time to recover from work. It is hypothesized that time spent on work-related and household activities has a negative effect on well-being, whereas low-effort, social, and physical activities are assumed to have a positive effect. One hundred Dutch teachers completed a diary on leisure time activities and situational well-being for 5 days, and work situation variables were assessed with a questionnaire. Multilevel analyses in which preleisure well-being and work situation variables were entered as control variables supported 4 of the 5 hypotheses. Moreover, a lagged effect of high time pressure on poor situational well-being was found. The study showed that leisure time activities and a low-stress work situation contribute independently to an individual's well-being.

Activities of Daily Living↗

PubMed1998

Expertise in professional software design: a process study.

Forty professional software designers participated in a study in which they worked on a software design task and reported strategies for accomplishing that task. High performers were identified by a peer-nomination method and performance on a design. Verbal protocol analysis based on a comparison of 12 high and 12 moderate performers indicated that high performers structured their design process by local planning and showed more feedback processing, whereas moderate performers were more engaged in analyzing requirements and verbalizing task-irrelevant cognitions. High performers more often described problem comprehension and cooperation with colleagues as useful strategies. High and moderate performers did not differ with respect to length of experience. None of the differences between the two performance groups could be explained by length of experience.

Achievement↗

PubMed1992

[Occupational rehabilitation of psychiatric patients--results of a study of workshops for handicapped patients].

The situation of persons with mental illness, who work in workshops for the handicapped, and the problems they have to deal with, are discussed. Concepts of the psychology of work, which nearly have not been recognized in the field of vocational rehabilitation are described. In a study in several workshops the relationship between job conditions and social support at the workplace and the personnel development of the mentally ill was investigated. The results show that above all the perceived job characteristics as well as social support are important for a positive development of the personality--both at the workplace and during leisure time.

Adult↗

PubMed1991

[Myocardial infarct, functional heart symptoms and panic syndrome].

Cardiovascular manifestations of anxiety have long been known. A particularly intriguing problem even today is the differentiation between real and false "heart attacks". We compared 20 patients with functional cardiac complaints and 20 patients with myocardial infarction with respect to their "heart attacks" and psychological disorders. In spite of methodological problems our results indicate much more dramatic symptoms in the functional group. Their localization of "cardiac" pain resembled the generally accepted picture for myocardial infarction much more than that of the patients with an actual infarction. Functional patients showed more help seeking behavior and were less able to describe triggers for their attacks than patients with myocardial infarction. Functional patients largely met DSM-III-R diagnostic criteria for panic disorder and had a higher prevalence of other psychological disorders.

Anxiety Disorders↗