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Work Hours Affect Spouse’s Cortisol Secretion—For Better And for Worse

From the University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland (P.K.); Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (C.H.); Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany (M.S.).

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Daily cortisol secretion as function of hours allocated to paid work. Six times per day, the level of free cortisol was assessed. The figure shows the change in daily cortisol secretion as a function of the hours of paid work one spouse performed above average and of the hours of paid work the other spouse performed above average.

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Daily cortisol secretion as function of hours allocated to household work. Six times per day, the level of free cortisol was assessed. The figure shows the change in daily cortisol secretion as a function of the hours of household work one spouse performed above average and of the hours of household work the other spouse performed above average.