HLTH 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Margaret Harris, Perceived Control, Chronotype
7 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Health 200
T/Th 2:30pm-3:45pm
Lisa DuPree, Jamie Hamblin, Dr. Margaret Harris
Tuesday, 4/24/18
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Time & Energy Management
• What studies have found:
o Time management correlates with academic performance and stress
o There have been a lot of time management interventions done
o Perceived control of time associated with greater work life satisfaction, less role
overload, less somatic tension
o Anxiety, TM and leisure satisfaction were predictors of academic stress. TM
behaviors had a greater buffering effect on academic stress then leisure
activities
o Correlation between high-choice media environment and users self-control may
account for decline in learning among college students
o Brief TM intervention can increase perceived control of time and protect from
increases in perceived stress in freshman at the beginning of the semester
o Brief TM intervention showed students allocated their work time more equally
and did not show procrastination compared to the control group
• Time management approaches
o prioritization
▪ goal setting- SMART goals
▪ actionable tasks
▪ prioritized to-do list
• what is most important?
o managing distractions
▪ Pomodoro technique
• A technique used to focus your mental energy
• Setting a timer to work for 25 minutes with 5-minute break, and
repeat this cycle 4 times with a 30-minute break between every 4
cycles
▪ environmental controls
• controlling where and when you work
▪ productivity apps (Moment, Checky)
o procrastination
▪ organization
▪ planning
▪ Self-regulation skills (managing thoughts & feelings to enable goal
directed actions)
o Scheduling
▪ Planning
▪ Time log/calendar
▪ Chronotype (lark or owl)
• How does this connect to the 5 Pillars of Health?
o Emotional, social, physical
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