Recovery, work engagement, and proactive behavior: a new look at the interface between nonwork and work.

By Sabine Sonnentag. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2003

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This study examined work-related outcomes of recovery during leisure time. A total of 147 employees completed a questionnaire and a daily survey over a period of 5 consecutive work days. Multilevel analyses showed that day-level recovery was positively related to day-level work engagement and day-level proactive behavior (personal initiative, pursuit of learning) during the subsequent work day. The data suggest considerable daily fluctuations in behavior and attitudes at work, with evidence that these are related to prior experience and opportunity for recovery in the nonwork domain.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Work-related contact, work–family conflict, psychological distress and sleep problems experienced by construction professionals: an integrated explanatory model (2018, background): “Recovery outside of working hours is important for employee health, wellbeing, and performance (Sonnentag 2001, 2003), and employees need periods of recovery to detach from work in order to recover properly from work-related stress.”
Challenge versus hindrance job demands and well‐being: A diary study on the moderating role of job resources. (2015, background): “All demands can be stressful because they require effort and energy, especially if employees have to deal with them for prolongedperiods of timewithout adequate recovery (Sonnentag, 2003).”
Too much of a good thing: Curvilinear effect of positive affect on proactive behaviors (2014, methodology): “Finally, we included participants’ age and gender, both of which were associated with proactive behaviors in prior research (Sonnentag, 2003).”
The trickle-down of work engagement from leader to follower: The roles of optimism and self-efficacy (2018, neutral): “…(Xanthopoulou et al., 2012), contextual performance (OCBs and extra-role performance) (Christian, Garza, & Slaughter, 2011), proactive behavior (Sonnentag, 2003), individual work-family facilitation (Culbertson, Mills, & Fullagar, 2012), job satisfaction (Xanthopoulou, Bakker, Demerouti, &…”
Work engagement and work-family facilitation: Making homes happier through positive affective spillover (2012, background): “Work engagement was measured using the nine-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES9; Schaufeli et al., 2006).”
Job Demands–Resources theory and self-regulation: new explanations and remedies for job burnout (2020, background): “Recovery refers to a process of restoring the cognitive and energetic resources that have been used up during work (Sonnentag, 2003).”
“You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Sleepy”: Leaders’ Sleep, Daily Abusive Supervision, and Work Unit Engagement (2014, background): “Indeed, several recent articles empirically support the idea that daily fluctuation in engagement is meaningful and predictable (Bakker & Despoina, 2009; Breevaart, Bakker, & Demerouti, 2014; Christian et al., 2011; Lanaj, Johnson, & Barnes, 2014; Sonnentag, 2003; Sonnentag et al., 2012).”
Should I stay or should I go? Examining longitudinal relations among job resources and work engagement for stayers versus movers (2008, background): “Finally, Sonnentag (2003) examined a sample of workers of six different public service organizations in a diary study, and found significant positive effects of method control on work engagement.”
Psychological detachment from work during off-job time: The role of job stressors, job involvement, and recovery-related self-efficacy (2006, background): “Moreover, recovery experiences were found to be positively related to subsequent on-the-job behaviour (Sonnentag, 2003).”
Transformational leadership, employee engagement and performance: Mediating effect of psychological ownership (2011, background): “performance is also studied in the past (Sonnentag, 2003).”