TAP reading note: The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: development and validation of a measure for assessing recuperation and unwinding from work
The Recovery Experience Questionnaire distinguishes psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery and control during nonwork time, yielding 16 items in four factors. It provides a way to discuss and measure different experiences; questionnaire scores do not themselves measure physiological recovery.
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What the study found
The Recovery Experience Questionnaire distinguishes psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery and control during nonwork time, yielding 16 items in four factors. It provides a way to discuss and measure different experiences; questionnaire scores do not themselves measure physiological recovery.
Scope & limitations
991 returned questionnaires were randomly split; after missing-data exclusions, calibration and cross-validation each included 465 people, totalling 930. A construct-association subsample included 271.
Validation relied mainly on self-report and correlations. Factors overlap, particularly relaxation and control. Cross-language invariance, additional recovery experiences and incremental prediction of objective recovery trajectories require separate tests.
Population & sample
991 returned questionnaires were randomly split; after missing-data exclusions, calibration and cross-validation each included 465 people, totalling 930. A construct-association subsample included 271.
Exposure or intervention
Item development and exploratory/confirmatory factor analyses of four experiences and related constructs.
Outcomes
Calibration CFI=.97 and RMSEA=.069; cross-validation CFI=.96 and RMSEA=.082. Fit and construct associations should be considered together.
Time frame
Scale development and concurrent construct validation, without common physiological follow-up.
Research funding
Not yet verified against the full text.
Research conflicts of interest
Not yet verified against the full text.
Reading scope
Institution-hosted original full text: item generation, sample splitting, CFA, construct associations and limitations. Cross-language and all subsequent validation studies are outside this note's scope.
References
Publication record
TAP-RDN-0020 · v0.3 · English
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