Cognitive Job Demands and Sports Participation among Young Workers: What Moderates the Relationship?

ABSTRACT: Cognitive job demands are theoretically and empirically associated with sports participation in various ways. Workers may be overwhelmed by stress and fatigue from their workload and therefore refrain from sports activities, but they can also feel the need to use sports as a way to recover and detach from work. The strategy to which workers adhere can depend on workers' resources that moderate the cognitive job demands and sports participation relationship, such as educational attainment, being a parent, or having worktime and work location control. To test our expectations, we used recent information on sports participation by young working adults from the Netherlands (N = 2032). Using multinomial logistic regression modelling, we found that workers in mentally demanding jobs were

SUBMITTER: Wiertsema S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10888168 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature