Workplace Wellness: Improving Your Experience at Work

Workplace Wellness: Improving Your Experience at Work

The primary objective of study was to compare affective (i.e., highlighted emotional benefits), instrumental (i.e., highlighted other health benefits), and self-regulation (i.e., demonstrated ways to plan, set goals, etc.) interventions in terms of their ability to motivate less sitting in the workplace. Research of this type is important because people sit for long periods of time at work which adversely affects their health and productivity.

It was hypothesized that the affective and self-regulation groups would sit less than the instrumental and control groups based on evidence indicating that affective attitude (i.e., emotional evaluation of the behavior) and self-regulation techniques tend to predict behavior.

Inclusion Criteria:

• From a local workplace in Victoria
• Full-time employee (i.e., greater than 35 hours per week)
• Reported over 5.5 hours of sitting per day at work
• Agreed to attend the 3 intervention sessions

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not from a local workplace in Victoria
• Not a full-time employee (i.e., 35 hours or less per week)
• Reported less than 5.5 hours of sitting per day at work
• Did not agree to attend the 3 intervention sessions