Psychology Post Labor Day
Melanie Nektalov
November 2nd, 2014
Period 11
Ms. Beiner
PostLabor Day Letdown Essay Returning to school or work after a summer vacation can be hard. Although some people are happy to go back to work and occupy themselves, it can be extremely dreadful for others. Labor Day can make different people feel a certain way. To some people, Labor Day stands as a symbol of a fresh start while for others, it represents the misery of going back to work. According to the Article “The PostLabor Day Letdown” by
Melina Beck, some people experience Post Vacation Syndrome (PVS). This Syndrome results in anxiety, lack of motivation, difficulty concentrating and a feeling of emptiness during the first few weeks of returning to work. There is a lot of factual information that is used to back up this idea. Most of the research is professionally studied and scientifically proved. However, some evidence is stronger than others.
This article provides a lot of evidence. This article is mostly scientific because almost all of the information comes from professional doctors, journals, or studies. For example, a study of 96 Dutch workers “found that health and wellbeing returned to pre vacation levels during the first week back at work.” This was conducted by professionals and published in the journal Work and Stress. The article also states information and then tells the readers where that information came from, weather it was a journal or a person. For example, after the article explains to be alert for symptoms of Post Vacation
Syndrome, it refers to its source, “...says Katherine Muller, assistant director of the
Center for Integrative Psychotherapy in Allentown, P.a.” The article gives a thorough description of who the person is. her occupation/position and her location. Some evidence is slightly stronger scientifically than others because of its accuracy. Not all the people who are mentioned in this article are 100% correct but they are
November 2nd, 2014
Period 11
Ms. Beiner
PostLabor Day Letdown Essay Returning to school or work after a summer vacation can be hard. Although some people are happy to go back to work and occupy themselves, it can be extremely dreadful for others. Labor Day can make different people feel a certain way. To some people, Labor Day stands as a symbol of a fresh start while for others, it represents the misery of going back to work. According to the Article “The PostLabor Day Letdown” by
Melina Beck, some people experience Post Vacation Syndrome (PVS). This Syndrome results in anxiety, lack of motivation, difficulty concentrating and a feeling of emptiness during the first few weeks of returning to work. There is a lot of factual information that is used to back up this idea. Most of the research is professionally studied and scientifically proved. However, some evidence is stronger than others.
This article provides a lot of evidence. This article is mostly scientific because almost all of the information comes from professional doctors, journals, or studies. For example, a study of 96 Dutch workers “found that health and wellbeing returned to pre vacation levels during the first week back at work.” This was conducted by professionals and published in the journal Work and Stress. The article also states information and then tells the readers where that information came from, weather it was a journal or a person. For example, after the article explains to be alert for symptoms of Post Vacation
Syndrome, it refers to its source, “...says Katherine Muller, assistant director of the
Center for Integrative Psychotherapy in Allentown, P.a.” The article gives a thorough description of who the person is. her occupation/position and her location. Some evidence is slightly stronger scientifically than others because of its accuracy. Not all the people who are mentioned in this article are 100% correct but they are