The effects of continuous work upon output and feelings

Abstract

The subjects worked at continuous addition, sentence completion, judging compositions, and intelligence tests for about 5½ hours per task, and reported their feelings at the end of each 20-30 minutes in terms of a 7-point scale from extremely good to extremely tired. 10-15 subjects were used. There is a uniform diminution in the feeling report, but it is not related to the average change of output of work; considering individual cases, there is a suggestion that the cases extreme in change of output are also extreme in change of feeling. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)