Endurance performance involves the prolonged maintenance of constant or self-regulated power/velocity or torque/force. While the impact of numerous determinants of endurance performance has been previously reviewed, the impact of fatigue on subsequent endurance performance still needs to be documented. This review aims to present the impact of fatigue induced by physical or mental exertion on s...

Prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion activities across Europe have gathered some pace since the launch of the European Union's Pact for Mental Health and Well-Being in 2008. Within the context of a large treatment gap in mental health and limited resources to meet the high demand for mental healthcare, a concerted effort is now needed to ensure that initiatives in both menta...

Abstract It is well established in educational research that metacognitive monitoring of performance assessed by self-reports, for instance, asking students to report their confidence provided answers, based on heuristic cues rather than actual success the task. Subjective self-reports are also used cognitive load, where they refer perceived amount mental effort invested or difficulty each task...

This paper provides the results of an applied research of forests engineers connected to their risk of mental stress occurrence in everyday work. This paper also has a component of a basic research, in which the adequacy and reliability of applied methodology in this kind of researches is examined. The mental stress induced risk is tested by usage of an e-mail survey which consists out of 23-pa...

Previous studies have demonstrated that an external focus can enhance motor learning compared to an internal focus. The benefits of adopting an external focus are attributed to the use of less effortful automatic control processes, while an internal focus relies upon more effort-intensive consciously controlled processes. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a distal extern...

OBJECTIVE Teaching profession is characterised by an above-average rate of psychosomatic and mental health impairment due to work-related stress. The aim of the study was to identify predictors of mental health in female teachers. MATERIAL AND METHODS A sample of 630 female teachers (average age 47 ± 7 years) participated in a screening diagnostic inventory. Mental health was surveyed with th...

MHP/GOMS is used to examine the user effort involved in reissuing commands with and without using history tools. Compared to typing, using a history tool for command specification requires more mental effort but less physical effort. However, non-expert typists expend less overall effort using history tools. Also, based on our experiences with using MHP/GOMS to explore ‘‘what if’’ scenarios, we...

In interactive layout a drawing is repeatedly modified either by the user or by the assistance system. A usability requirement states that the assistance system should alter the layout such that the user’s mental map is preserved. This work concretises mental map preservation from a cognitive science perspective. A notion of similarity that is based on the idea of transforming spatial mental mo...