PSY 492D Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Allostatic Load, Stress Management, Job Performance
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Identify which theories of the stress process are most relevant to understanding recovery and sleep. Learn different types of recovery experiences during non-work time. Working individuals invest their efforts into their job tasks/demands. Expenditure of work efforts taxes on our functional system. When functional system is activated for a prolonged time without sufficient respites, individuals develop strains. The theory suggests that employees need to take time to recover from work demands and work stress. Otherwise their ability to sustain well-being and job performance will be severely limited. Contemporary researchers often rely on this theory to study employee recovery from work. The theory has shifted scholarly attention to recovery processes from the dominant work stress process. A process during which individual functional systems that have been called upon during stressful experiences return to their pre-stress levels. Full recovery is returning to an individual"s baseline of pre-stress level.
