“Individuals who exercised regularly were more confident they could handle the interaction of their work and home life and were less likely to be stressed at work<\/strong>,” said Russell Clayton, assistant professor of management at Saint Leo University and lead author on the paper.<\/p>\n Conflict between work and home can be categorized in two ways<\/strong>. Work interference with family describes typical job-based pressures that can lead to interference (either time or psychologically) of family time. Family interference with work is when personal issues find a way into the workday and compete with “work time.” Researchers wanted to find if exercise helped both.<\/p>\n Previous studies have shown that exercise helps to reduce stress<\/strong>. A previous study examined Tai Chi exercise programs over 12 weeks. Another study looked at high-intensity aerobic exercise. Both showed reductions of self-reported stress. What researchers didn’t know is if the reduction of stress actually helped empower individuals to feel they had better work-life balance.<\/p>\n “The idea sounds counterintuitive. How is it that adding something else to our work day helps to alleviate stress and empower us to deal with work-family issues? We think exercise is a way to psychologically detach from work — you’re not there physically and you’re not thinking about it either<\/strong> — and, furthermore, it can help us feel good about ourselves.”<\/p>\n Researchers examined responses of 476 working adults to survey questions. Respondents were asked on a four-point scale (1 never — 4 always) questions about exercise behavior. For example, “I exercise more than three days a week.” Respondents were then asked a number of questions on a 7-point scale (strongly disagree — strongly agree) about their confidence in handling work-family conflicts.<\/p>\n “Our findings suggest that employers can help employees with work-life balance by encouraging them to exercise<\/strong>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n These findings are forthcoming in Human Resource Management<\/em>. Researchers were from Saint Leo University, Saint Louis University, University of Houston — Victoria and Illinois State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Dick Jones Communications media release: Researchers have found that exercise plays a role in how individuals feel they can manage their work-life balance. “Individuals who exercised regularly were… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,338,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16158,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16155\/revisions\/16158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"work-life](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/work-life-sign.jpg\")
<\/a>Researchers have found that exercise plays a role in how individuals feel they can manage their work-life balance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n