The Psychology of Fatigue: Work, Effort and Control
Cambridge University Press, 5/16/2013
EAN 9780521762656, ISBN10: 0521762650
Hardcover, 284 pages, 23.1 x 15.8 x 2 cm
Language: English
Fatigue can have a major impact on an individual's performance and well-being, yet is poorly understood, even within the scientific community. There is no developed theory of its origins or functions, and different types of fatigue (mental, physical, sleepiness) are routinely confused. The widespread interpretation of fatigue as a negative consequence of work may be true only for externally imposed goals; meaningful or self-initiated work is rarely tiring and often invigorating. In the first book dedicated to the systematic treatment of fatigue for over sixty years, Robert Hockey examines its many aspects - social history, neuroscience, energetics, exercise physiology, sleep and clinical implications - and develops a new motivational control theory, in which fatigue is treated as an emotion having a fundamental adaptive role in the management of goals. He then uses this new perspective to explore the role of fatigue in relation to individual motivation, working life and well-being.
1. The problem of fatigue
2. Changing experiences of fatigue
the social-historical context
3. The work-fatigue hypothesis
4. Stress, coping and fatigue
5. Effort, strain and fatigue
6. A motivation control theory of fatigue
7. Extensions and limitations
energy, physical work and sleep
8. The psychopathology of fatigue
9. An agenda for fatigue
research and application.
Advance praise: 'Bob Hockey has produced an outstanding book containing easily the best theoretical account of fatigue ever produced. This book (which also provides a fascinating historical account) is destined to become an 'instant classic'.' Michael W. Eysenck, Roehampton University