Today is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday , are you ready for the start of work tomorrow? Do you still don’t want to get up in the morning, feel listless, and can’t think of anything? It is said that holidays make people relax. If you relax, it will lead to this result… Then why do you have a holiday?
a (normal) holiday
What’s the use for work?
There is a long-standing tradition in the corporate world: use your annual leave for vacation when work is not going well—and it works. Numerous studies have shown that vacation health and well-being are significantly improved, and this improvement is reflected in five areas: health status, mood, tension, energy and satisfaction.
Unfortunately, this improvement was short-lived, with the return to work quickly falling back to pre-holiday levels .
Fortunately, vacations also have some indirect effects. For example, taking time off may prevent work-related harm and create resilience to withstand later work stress; for example, in hindsight, vacations can once again improve health and happiness, albeit temporarily. For example, there is a positive correlation between not taking annual leave and illness and premature death, and so on.
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But there is nothing unexpected about these. The key question is, vacations are so good, why doesn’t the Spring Festival have these effects? Let’s first look at why the holiday has these benefits.
a (normal) holiday
How does it work?
The impact mechanism of holidays on work mainly includes four mechanisms: recovery from fatigue, rebuilding self-efficacy, enhancing social support, and positive emotions.
restore “energy”
“Effort-Recovery Theory” (Effort-Recovery Theory) emphasizes that only when workers recover fully after work can they avoid the negative effects of workload. The recovery here mainly refers to the psychological and physical tension from the working state. Released from the state and returned to a relaxed state.
All work and no playmake Jack a dull boy｜Pixabay
Exposure to the pressure and load of work for a long time requires enough vacation and separation from work to recover. Holidays just provide such an opportunity to separate you from work and allow you to recover effectively. Of course, this is a cliché, but the other mechanisms may be unfamiliar.
rebuild self-efficacy
Simply put, “self-efficacy” refers to the extent to which you believe that you can accomplish something, that is, you perceive a sense of self-control, which plays a very large role in your work status. For example, when encountering problems at work, a high sense of self-efficacy can guide people to maintain a calm state of mind and seek solutions, while a low sense of self-efficacy will make people feel that they are not capable enough, and they will feel that their work ability has declined Increased sense of powerlessness and powerlessness, loss of sense of job accomplishment, self-evaluation with a negative attitude, decreased satisfaction with one’s work, and worsened work status.
Vacations allow you to devote yourself to the things you enjoy , which can boost your sense of self-efficacy. Imagine the sense of accomplishment when you make a pot of your own rice cakes for your family. This can rebuild your sense of efficacy and make you feel that you have the strength to deal with many things.
Speaking of which, what does your rice cake look like? ｜Figureworm Creative
enhance social support
Social support includes visible and practical support (such as direct material assistance ), as well as experienced emotional support (such as empathy, attention, emotion, acceptance, trust, encouragement , etc.). Social support has a general beneficial effect on individuals’ physical and mental health. It not only buffers the negative impact of negative events on individuals when they have a psychological crisis, but also maintains the individual’s pleasant emotional experience and improves people’s physical and mental health. This means a lot to keep in good working order.
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During the holidays, you can spend time with your family and friends. This kind of close companionship can enhance your social support, allow you to maintain a pleasant emotional experience, enhance your physical and mental health, and at the same time provide a buffer in times of crisis. I’m guessing bear relatives are not on this list.
positive emotions
Vacations can provide opportunities for individuals to engage in activities of their own choosing (autonomy) and relatedness. Satisfaction of the two basic needs of autonomy and relationship can produce positive emotions, which is the key mechanism of the holiday’s effect on individuals, where autonomy mainly refers to the individual’s ability to carry out self-determined activities based on his own will , and relationship refers to the relationship with A feeling of close connection with other people .
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Positive emotions can promote the brain’s pleasure reward system to produce specific hormones, thereby regulating the individual’s stress response. Positive emotions can have not only short-term effects, but also long-term effects, primarily by building long-lasting personal resources (intellectual growth, creativity, new skills, social support, coping skills, and psychological resilience).
why spring festival
Doesn’t count as a “normal” holiday?
As outlined in the preceding theories, vacations work through mechanisms.
First of all, you have to rest and restore your energy before you can recover from the stressful state of work, just like a squeezed spring returning to its original state.
Second, get a good rest , which requires you to be able to engage in activities of your own choice that make you feel happy, rebuild your sense of efficacy, enhance your social support, and experience positive emotions. For example, having an intimate and frank conversation with your partner can make people feel happy and increase the social support from close others. The hormones produced by the brain that can be promoted by pleasant positive emotional feelings can regulate the stress response. Work stress is very useful.
However, due to its special nature, the Spring Festival, although it is called a holiday, often fails to achieve such a goal.
The more vacation you get, the more tired you are, right? ｜Pixabay
On the one hand, the Spring Festival takes on a lot of interpersonal tasks (such as dealing with your mother forcing you to get married ). Although it is not work, in essence, this kind of task that has to be done is the same as the pressure brought by work, and it still cannot be relaxed, like a spring that cannot be restored.
On the other hand, due to the domestic family structure and other status quo, couples may have some conflicts due to human relations during the Spring Festival (such as the easiest way to go to whose house to celebrate the New Year ), which will affect the relationship between the couples and will reduce the support from the partners. Spend. In this way, the sense of support brought about by active and frequent exchanges with your partner during normal holidays has the opposite effect during the Spring Festival.
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Holiday activities are supposed to bring good feelings to people, but these entertainments and disputes often lead to unpleasant feelings. Even if the word “big Chinese New Year” sits in the town, it can only prevent the outbreak of conflicts on the surface, but cannot eliminate them. Deep emotional impact . The vacation did not achieve its desired effect, it failed to allow people to recover from the previous workload, and even due to some unavoidable factors, they failed to make people engage in pleasant activities to generate positive emotions, but instead generated negative emotions. This is why the Lunar New Year holiday often has a negative impact on post-holiday work.
The Spring Festival is over, is Qingming still far away?
Try this vacation!
Knowing the mechanics of how vacations work lets us know how to spend your vacation.
First, recover from fatigue at work . Don’t work on vacation, and most importantly, don’t think about your work. Complete separation (both physical and psychological) from work during vacation can significantly reduce fatigue.
Secondly, you may wish to do some things that you are good at or have the ability to do well during the holidays, such as cooking delicious meals, drawing pictures, etc., which can enhance your sense of self-efficacy and make you feel that you have the strength to deal with all kinds of holidays. Work challenges.
So what exactly are you good at? This AI suggests that you start thinking about…
In addition, communicate more with trusted family and friends , which can allow you to gain emotional support from important others. Their understanding, trust and encouragement are of great significance for you to adjust your emotions and rebuild your confidence to deal with the work after coping.
Last but not least, positive emotions , which can come from increased self-efficacy, support from family and friends, or simply from activities that make you feel pleasurable.
In addition, when you are working after the holiday, you may wish to recall some pleasant things during the holiday (if any), which can temporarily increase your positive emotional level, which is conducive to improving your working status and helping you survive the next day. a vacation.
Going to work is not good, at least temporarily away from forced marriages, childbirth, firecracker pollution, all kinds of mysterious traditional taboos, and bear relatives and bear children, right? Take a look, I wish you all the best of luck.
Author: TinyTitans
Edit: Fangorn
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In fact, you just hate going to work/school…sleeping at home for 7 days and you will be tired after the holidays.
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