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Study: Gratitude may help stress at work By City News Service
FATHER’S DAY is a time to refocus your energy on giving yourself the gift of time — quality time. Courtesy photo
Honoring our time in ‘dadhood’
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o my fellow dad, Congratulations on being you. You carry the most fulfilling title of Dad. While it does not always come with peace of mind and confidence, it is a role that you have been blessed with and can cherish throughout your life. I want you to remember that every day, you are seen, you are heard, and you are admired. Through the eyes of your children, you are a hero, a superman. You are strong, determined, hard-working, dedicated, and driven to uphold the role in the most delicate way possible. Your character defines you. Your love lifts you up. And your time is valued. Let us dedicate this Fathers Day to the honoring of our time by pausing, prioritizing, and purposefully managing it in the most intentional of ways, while giving it to those that we unconditionally love and that so to unconditionally love us, our children. This year, let us take the time to honor less doing and more giving. The culture of do-ing has been an epidemic of lost connections. For many of us, doing holds us back in our efforts to be present and purposeful in caring for the well-being of our families. The days of over-scheduling, overworking, and over-stressing must end. And so I challenge
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angie & marc rosenberg you, as I challenge myself, to give up this Fathers Day the do-ing mentality, and refocus your energy on giving yourself the gift of time, quality time. That’s right, no social media, no alcohol, no tv, nothing that creates a sense of distraction from gaining presence in your life. Instead, give to your children, your wife, and your dads, the gift of slowing down and sharing a day full of laughter, love, and connection, that embody the meaning of dadhood. To help you along your way, try these 5 simple shifts to create greater quality of your time this Father’s Day: 1. Pause and Plan a Purposeful Day 2. Be Grateful for the NOW Moments 3. Less Talk, Less Doing, More Experiencing 4. Let your children guide the trajectory of your day 5. Remove ALL Distractions and Be Present For more on our support and services, and to join our NTENTION Setter community, visit us at www.4NTENT.com or follow us on instagram, @4NTENT.
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REGION — Co-workers and teammates who thank each other before performing a high-stress task had a better cardiovascular response compared to teams that did not express gratitude, researchers from UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management found this week. In their study, set to be published in an upcoming issue of Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, they found this cardiovascular response leads to increased concentration and more confidence which in turn can allow individuals to give their peak performance. The study found gratitude can benefit people in “loose tie’’ relationships, such as co-workers. It also revealed that gratitude builds biological resources, promoting better stress responses, which can have long- term health impacts. Repeated exposure to stress is linked to cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment and weakened immunity. “Our results have meaningful implications for organizations and particularly for employees who work together under acutely stressful conditions to accomplish joint goals,’’ said Christopher Oveis, senior author of the study and associate professor of economics and strategy at the Rady School. The results were taken from an experiment with 200 participants who had to compete in a contest inspired by the TV show “Shark Tank.’’ UCSD students were paired in teams to replicate relationships between workplace colleagues — individuals who are not close personally, but who spend a lot of time together. The teams were given six minutes together to come up with a pitch for creating and marketing a bicycle for students to ride on campus and were given six minutes to pitch their product and its marketing plan before a panel of judges. The winning team was awarded $200. “It’s essentially an impossible task,’’ Oveis said. “The experiment is designed to create a maximally stressful environment so we can gauge how gratitude shapes stress response during teamwork because most people spend a third or more of their daily lives at work.’’ Participants wore electrodes on their neck and torso which collected electrocardiography and impedance cardiography signals. Blood pressure was also monitored. A select group of teams
THE STUDY, performed by researchers at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, also revealed that gratitude builds biological resources, promoting better stress responses, which can have long-term health impacts. Courtesy photo
were randomly assigned to express gratitude and their biological responses were compared to teams who did not thank each other during the contest. “In a high-stakes, motivated performance task, people can react in one of two ways at a biological level,’’ Oveis said. “Some people really rise to the challenge and have an efficient cardiovascular response known as a challenge response: The heart pumps out more blood, the vasculature dilates, blood gets to the periphery, oxygenated blood gets to the brain and cognition fires on all cylinders. “But other people don’t fare as well and instead have a threat response: The heart pumps out less blood, the vasculature constricts, blood flow to periphery is reduced and performance goes down,’’ he said. Just a single, one- to two-minute expression of gratitude from one teammate to another pushed those teammates toward more adaptive, performance-oriented biological challenge responses, the researchers found. Oveis and his co-authors — Yumeng Gu, a
Rady School PhD student when the research was underway, Rady School alumnus Joseph Ocampo and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor of psychology Sara Algoe — tested the cardiovascular responses to stress on an individual and collaborative level. According to the study, control teams displayed threat responses marked by decreased blood flow and increased vascular constriction. However, a simple gratitude expression prior to the task eliminated these threat responses. During individual product pitches, control teams showed modest challenge responses marked
by vascular dilation and increased blood flow to the periphery. However, gratitude-expressing teams showed significantly larger, amplified challenge responses which aided their performance, the authors wrote. “Gratitude expressions within work environments may be key to managing our day-to-day stress responses as well optimizing our how we respond during high-pressure performance tasks like product pitches, so that we can make our stress responses fuel performance instead of harm it,’’ Oveis said. “But at their core, gratitude expressions play a fundamental role in strengthening our relationships at work.’’
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