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What are the different types of fatigue?
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Fatigue may be both physical and mental.
(1) Physical Fatigue-We find physical characteristics of fatigue in physical fatigue, for example heart beat rate, blood pressure, oxygen consumption, breathing rate, blood composition, nervous system etc. Since many jobs in industry call for muscular exertion, physical fatigue is of interest to the industrial psychologist. Physical fatigue results in reduced capacity of the body muscles of a man.
(2) Mental Fatigue—Fatigue is mental also because it is sometimes manifested event one has done no physical work. Mental fatigue is normally visible after excessive physical fatigue. The symptoms of mental fatigue are absence of desire to work, lack of interest and concentration, lack of normal efficiency in work, desire to rest etc. One example of mental fatigue is boredom. Boredom is tinged with an emotional distaste of work and arises when the worker has a feeling of futility in continuing his work. An important cause of mental fatigue is the absence of motivation and of a proper aptitude.
Despite the differences between physical and mental fatigue , two should not be viewed as entirely different, for they are intimately related to each other. A person who complains of fatigue, is in fact suffering from both-mental and physical fatigue. In most of the cases of fatigue, we find both physical and mental symptoms. Mental work cannot be done efficiently in a condition of physical fatigue nor can physical work be done well in a condition of mental fatigue.
