TAP reading note: A Meta-Analysis on Antecedents and Outcomes of Detachment from Work

What the study found

Detachment was, on average, associated with less fatigue and better self-reported sleep and well-being. Average associations with physiological stress indicators were not significant.

Scope & limitations

86 publications, 91 independent samples, 38,124 employees

Associations do not establish causality. Findings across outcomes cannot be collapsed into one recovery score.

Population & sample

86 publications, 91 independent samples, 38,124 employees

Exposure or intervention

Detachment from work; associations across employee samples

Outcomes

Fatigue / need for recovery, sleep and other outcomes were pooled separately. The fatigue category comprised 17 independent effects (N = 12,510); the physiological-activation category comprised 3 (N = 219).

Time frame

Varies across included studies; not extracted individually

Research funding

The authors report German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health support, project F 2353.

Research conflicts of interest

The authors declare no commercial or financial relationships constituting a potential conflict. This is their published declaration.

Reading scope

Methods, selected Table 1 outcomes, funding and conflict declarations checked against the publisher's full text on 14 September 2026. Underlying studies and supplementary analyses have not been independently re-extracted.

References

1. Johannes Wendsche, Andrea Lohmann-Haislah (2017). A Meta-Analysis on Antecedents and Outcomes of Detachment from Work. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02072

Publication record

TAP-RDN-0009 · v0.2 · English

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