With growing concerns regarding obesity in the United States, Michael Sliter, assistant professor of psychology, hopes the study encourages employers to examine methods to assist workers in healthy living.<\/p>\n “We found that the walking workstations, regardless of a person’s exercise habits or body mass index (BMI), had significant benefits,” Sliter said. “Even if you don’t exercise or if you are overweight, you’ll experience both short-term physical and psychological benefits.”<\/p>\n A sample of 180 participants were evaluated on boredom, task satisfaction, stress, arousal, and performance while completing work-related computer tasks across four randomly assigned workstations: seated, standing, cycling or walking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The researchers found walking workstation participants had higher satisfaction and arousal, while experiencing less boredom and stress than the standing and sitting workstation participants<\/strong>. In comparison, the cycling workstation related to reduced satisfaction and performance.<\/p>\n The paper “Workout at work: Laboratory Test of Psychological and Performance Outcomes of Active Workstations,” (http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1037\/a0038175<\/a>) which Sliter wrote entirely while using a walking workstation, appears online in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Occupational Health Psychology<\/em> and in the January 2015 print edition.<\/p>\n Sliter plans to continue exploring the psychological benefits of walking workstations in future studies. Particularly, he is interested in examining long-term psychological and physical benefits of such workstations<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The School of Science at IUPUI is committed to excellence in teaching, research and service in the biological, physical, behavioral and mathematical sciences. The school is dedicated to being a leading resource for interdisciplinary research and science education in support of Indiana’s effort to expand and diversify its economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the IUPUI media release: Walking workstations can improve not only physical, but also mental health during the workday, a new study released this week found. The research was conducted… 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":[345,5,10,338,348,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310"}],"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=17310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17313,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions\/17313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"workplace_walking_stairs\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/workplace_walking_stairs.jpg\")
<\/a>Walking workstations can improve not only physical, but also mental health during the workday, a new study released this week found<\/strong>. The research was conducted by faculty and student researchers from the Department of Psychology in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).<\/p>\n