If mental strain had been higher, it might have hindered learning and team performance.
In the occupationally active work force, adverse work-related exposures such as high-job demand, low-job control or a combination of the two, that is, work-related mental strain, have been linked with an increased prevalence of chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression and obesity, 1 4 increased use of hospital care services 5 and premature mortality.
Although evidence on the long-term effects of job strain is accumulating, physical and mental job strain have less frequently been investigated simultaneously in a representative population using concrete public health indicators such as care use.
He retreated from the spotlight soon after, amid rumors of mental strain — Mangum has said that he needed to reassess some of his basic assumptions about reality — but when he returned this year he was in fine fettle.
Maybe the strain has mutated.
Higher mental and physical job strain have been found to increase the prevalence of several chronic diseases and conditions such as coronary heart disease, diabetes and obesity as well as mortality [ 5– 9].
He said several churches would serve as safe havens, providing food and shelter, and that mental health providers were on hand to help "ease the mental strain that these events have caused".
It is questionable whether these (time-related) measures are sufficient to reduce the mental strain that university employees have to cope with.
Doherty: "People say, 'how is it exhausting?' but when you have the mental strain, the adrenaline running through your body and the pressure, all that takes its toll on you physically".
He resigned 12 days before the '67 season ended, citing the "physical and mental strain" of all that losing and having to await a decision on his future by the Mets' management.
