More Stresserleben commuters have an increased health risk

Increased stress experience: Commuters have greater health risks
Many employees in Germany often have to travel long distances to get to work. This can have a very negative impact on your health. Commuters often suffer from mental health problems and are often ill.
Commuting can harm your health
Employees whose jobs are further away seem to be unhealthier: workers who commute to the workplace on a daily or weekly basis have a significantly higher health risk. As the sociologist Heiko Rüger of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) in Wiesbaden told the "Neue Presse" (Saturday), published in Hanover, a large number of studies consistently show that long commuting is associated with an increased level of stress.

Additional stress from daily commuting. Image: diego cervo - fotolia

Increased stress due to congestion and delays
According to this, the risk of a poor state of health in long-distance commuters, who cover a distance of at least one hour or 50 kilometers to the workplace, is about twice as high as for non-commuters. Among other things, the increased stress due to traffic jams or train delays. "In addition, there is the chronic lack of time, the time for regeneration is often missing," said Rüger. A survey of the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) showed a few years ago that commuting or frequent job changes and relocations due to a new job, apparently, are reasons why it is more common to mental illness in professional commuters.

Impact on partnerships
According to a report from the BiB, gainfully employed people are accepting ever longer journey times for their journey to work. Every twentieth employee commutes an hour or more.

According to the "Neue Presse", around 6,000 people commute daily by long-distance trains between Hanover and Hamburg. Amazingly little negative impact seems to have the daily commuting for partnerships. On the other hand, weekend commuting often saw many disadvantages. However, it is said that they are often compensated, as the time spent with the partner is perceived much more intensively on the weekend. (Ad)