Does Psychological Stress Improve Physical Performance?

Psychological Skills to Improve Emergency Care Providers' Performance Under Stress.

Stress experienced by emergency medical providers during the resuscitation of critically ill or injured patients can cause cognitive and technical performance to deteriorate. Psychological skills training offers a reasonable and easily implemented solution to this problem. In this article, a specific set of 4 performance-enhancing psychological skills is introduced: breathe, talk, see, and focu...

Does immune suppression during stress occur to promote physical performance?

Two adaptationist hypotheses have been proposed to explain why stress, particularly elevation of stress hormones (i.e. glucocorticoids), tends to suppress immune functions. One is that immune suppression represents efforts to minimize autoimmune responses to self-antigens released as organisms cope with stressors (i.e. the autoimmune-avoidance hypothesis). The other is that immune suppression o...

Performance Decrement under Psychological Stress.

Does employee ownership improve performance?

Employee ownership is linked to better company performance on average. Employee ownership companies have more stability, higher survival rates, and fewer layoffs in recessions, potentially leading to lower unemployment in the overall economy. Employer stock tends to come on top of, rather than substitute for, regular employee compensation, and thereby adds to pay and wealth in general. The broa...

Increased occupational physical activity does not improve physical fitness.

AIM To determine the possible influence of high physical load in the workplace on the physical fitness of employees. METHODS The subjects (494 men) were tested by means of Baecke's questionnaire for evaluation of the Work Index, measuring occupational physical load. The EUROFIT battery of tests was used for testing the functional and motor abilities of the subjects. RESULTS Subjects with a ...