Lomonosov Psychology Journal
ISSN 0137-0936
eISSN 2309-9852
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ISSN 0137-0936
eISSN 2309-9852

Article

Kuznetsova A. S., Luzyanina M. S.(2014). Psychological problems of rest planning and rest arrangement: Proactive or reactive approach . The Moscow University Psychology Bulletin, 2, 16-30

Abstract

The empirical study is targeted to estimate the subjective value of rest and to analyze rest as an activity for efficient recovery. The study was conducted in employees of different industrial and service organizations. The results showed that mostly by all respondents rest is accepted as an important instrumental value for workability maintenance. At the same time, high rating positions of rest in the life values list does not always transform rest value into the intention to arrange recreation purposively. The type of attitudes to rest determines different approaches to rest arrangement: proactive (based on anticipative rest planning) or reactive (which manifest itself in acceptance of rest as necessary recreation combined with no special rest arrangements). The extraction of indirect rest attributes seems to be possible on the base of psychosemantic analysis of the notions form work and rest domains. The semantic distance evaluation of the work and rest notions allows revealing different meanings of recreation: as a forced necessity because of work and for work, or as a possibility for recovery.

Received: 03/17/2014
Pages: 16-30

Keywords: rest; work; recreation; recovery; rest as an instrumental value; proactive and reactive attitudes to res; psychosemantic analysis;

Available Online 30.06.2014

For citing this article:

Kuznetsova A. S., Luzyanina M. S.(2014). Psychological problems of rest planning and rest arrangement: Proactive or reactive approach . The Moscow University Psychology Bulletin, 2, 16-30