Importanza dello stress

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Coffee-breaks sabotage employees' abilities


18:41 13 February 04

NewScientist.com news service

Taking a coffee break at work may actually sabotage employees' ability
to do their jobs and undermine teamwork instead of boosting it, suggests
new research.

Dosing up on caffeine is particularly unhelpful to men, disrupting their
emotions and hampering their ability to do certain tasks, suggests a
report by psychologists Lindsay St Claire and Peter Rogers at Bristol
University in the UK.

Many people take coffee breaks at work believing this will reduce their
feelings of stress. But theories about the effects of caffeine are
conflicting. Some studies suggest caffeine can worsen anxiety and
trigger stress, while others show it boosts confidence, alertness and
sociability, making certain tasks easier.

But this latest report, released by the UK's Economic and Social
Research Council on Friday, backs the view that coffee exacerbates
stress, especially in men, and makes people less co-operative when
working in teams.

Our research findings suggest that the commonplace tea or coffee break
might backfire in business situations, particularly where men are
concerned, says St Claire. Far from reducing stress, it might actually
make things worse.


Business trip


St Claire and Rogers decided to investigate caffeine's effects on work
stress after hearing an anecdote at a stress workshop. A man described
how he and a group of normally cohesive colleagues went on a business
trip to the US.

Unlike in the UK, coffee was freely available and the team
over-indulged. Within days their stress levels had escalated and they
believe the extra caffeine had disrupted their working relationships,
and impaired their working ability.

The Bristol team tested caffeine's effects on 32 coffee-drinkers. They
told them they would be given a caffeinated coffee that would boost
their performance, or a caffeinated coffee which causes stress-like
side-effects, or decaffeinated coffee. However, unknown to the
volunteers, only half the drinks contained 200 mg of caffeine and the
other half contained none. The subjects then carried out two stressful
tasks.

Unexpectedly, men told their coffee 'contained caffeine, which enhances
performance' had higher heart rates and used le
 

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Coffee-breaks sabotage employees' abilities


18:41 13 February 04

NewScientist.com news service

Taking a coffee break at work may actually sabotage employees' ability
to do their jobs and undermine teamwork instead of boosting it, suggests
new research.

Dosing up on caffeine is particularly unhelpful to men, disrupting their
emotions and hampering their ability to do certain tasks, suggests a
report by psychologists Lindsay St Claire and Peter Rogers at Bristol
University in the UK.

Many people take coffee breaks at work believing this will reduce their
feelings of stress. But theories about the effects of caffeine are
conflicting. Some studies suggest caffeine can worsen anxiety and
trigger stress, while others show it boosts confidence, alertness and
sociability, making certain tasks easier.

But this latest report, released by the UK's Economic and Social
Research Council on Friday, backs the view that coffee exacerbates
stress, especially in men, and makes people less co-operative when
working in teams.

Our research findings suggest that the commonplace tea or coffee break
might backfire in business situations, particularly where men are
concerned, says St Claire. Far from reducing stress, it might actually
make things worse.


Business trip


St Claire and Rogers decided to investigate caffeine's effects on work
stress after hearing an anecdote at a stress workshop. A man described
how he and a group of normally cohesive colleagues went on a business
trip to the US.

Unlike in the UK, coffee was freely available and the team
over-indulged. Within days their stress levels had escalated and they
believe the extra caffeine had disrupted their working relationships,
and impaired their working ability.

The Bristol team tested caffeine's effects on 32 coffee-drinkers. They
told them they would be given a caffeinated coffee that would boost
their performance, or a caffeinated coffee which causes stress-like
side-effects, or decaffeinated coffee. However, unknown to the
volunteers, only half the drinks contained 200 mg of caffeine and the
other half contained none. The subjects then carried out two stressful
tasks.

Unexpectedly, men told their coffee 'contained caffeine, which enhances
performance' had higher heart rates and used le
 

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Sappiamo tutti quanto sia importante lo stress nella calvizie...

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994680


Coffee-breaks sabotage employees' abilities


18:41 13 February 04

NewScientist.com news service

Taking a coffee break at work may actually sabotage employees' ability
to do their jobs and undermine teamwork instead of boosting it, suggests
new research.

Dosing up on caffeine is particularly unhelpful to men, disrupting their
emotions and hampering their ability to do certain tasks, suggests a
report by psychologists Lindsay St Claire and Peter Rogers at Bristol
University in the UK.

Many people take coffee breaks at work believing this will reduce their
feelings of stress. But theories about the effects of caffeine are
conflicting. Some studies suggest caffeine can worsen anxiety and
trigger stress, while others show it boosts confidence, alertness and
sociability, making certain tasks easier.

But this latest report, released by the UK's Economic and Social
Research Council on Friday, backs the view that coffee exacerbates
stress, especially in men, and makes people less co-operative when
working in teams.

Our research findings suggest that the commonplace tea or coffee break
might backfire in business situations, particularly where men are
concerned, says St Claire. Far from reducing stress, it might actually
make things worse.


Business trip


St Claire and Rogers decided to investigate caffeine's effects on work
stress after hearing an anecdote at a stress workshop. A man described
how he and a group of normally cohesive colleagues went on a business
trip to the US.

Unlike in the UK, coffee was freely available and the team
over-indulged. Within days their stress levels had escalated and they
believe the extra caffeine had disrupted their working relationships,
and impaired their working ability.

The Bristol team tested caffeine's effects on 32 coffee-drinkers. They
told them they would be given a caffeinated coffee that would boost
their performance, or a caffeinated coffee which causes stress-like
side-effects, or decaffeinated coffee. However, unknown to the
volunteers, only half the drinks contained 200 mg of caffeine and the
other half contained none. The subjects then carried out two stressful
tasks.

Unexpectedly, men told their coffee 'contained caffeine, which enhances
performance' had higher heart rates and used le