After work is done: Psychological perspectives on recovery from work
By F. Zijlstra, Sabine Sonnentag. Work and Rest: A Topic for Work and Organizational Psychology, 2006
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Research on the relation between work and health has primarily focused on the effects of psychosocial characteristics of the job (i.e., autonomy, psychological demands) on psychological well-being and other healthrelated outcomes. However, in the last decade the awareness has risen that an integral part of a healthy life is an adequate balance between work and private life (work – life balance, work-family balance; cf. Jones, Burke, & Westman, 2005). Part of a healthy life style is recovering from the daily strains. The topic of recovery from work has not received much scientific attention, and consequently the process of recovery is not yet well understood (for reviews, cf. Eden, 2001a, 2001b). With this special issue we want to contribute to the understanding of the process of recovery, and we hope that this issue will help to put this topic on the research agenda. This special issue presents a selection of articles that look into different aspects related to recovery, such as aspects that are work-related and aspects that are related to the time after work. In this introduction we will outline some background information that is needed to position the concept of
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Health Professions, Social Psychology
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- Having a creative day: understanding entrepreneurs’ daily idea generation through a recovery lens (2018, background): “Behaviors, activities, and experiences such as vacations, social and physical off-job activities, as well as physiological states (such as sleep), are all part of the recovery process because they help to rebuild mental and physiological resources (Zijlstra and Sonnentag, 2006).”
- Recovery from work-related effort: A meta-analysis (2018, unknown): “After expending energy over a period, it is necessary to recover or replenish resources that were used up at work (Zijlstra & Sonnentag, 2006).”