Volume 29, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.281
IMPROVEMENT EFFECT OF LONG-TERM SPORTS TRAINING ON WORK STRESS AND MENTAL HEALTH OF WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS
Abstract
Many white-collar workers are under intense mental pressure in the competitive workplace, which severely undermines their mental health. The long-term sports training provides a possible solution to this problem. This paper aims to identify the relationship between work stress and mental health of white-collar workers, and explore the improvement effect of long-term sports training on their work stress and mental health. Therefore, a questionnaire survey was conducted on white-collar workers in Nanjing, China, and a contrastive experiment was performed on white-collar workers, with or without long-term sports training. The results show that the work stress and mental health is not purely negative; long-term sports training can, to a certain extent, promote positive emotions and reduce emotional disorders; the long-term training group has much more positive emotions than the group without long-term training, and the two groups differ greatly in the various dimensions of positive emotions. The research findings provide a theoretical basis for alleviating work stress and improving mental health.
Keywords
White-Collar Workers, Mental Health, Sports Training, Work Stress, Positive Emotions.