TAP reading note: Recovery from Work: Advancing the Field Toward the Future
This review follows recovery across work breaks, evenings, weekends and vacations. It connects these opportunities with work conditions, boundaries between work and non-work life, and evidence from field and intervention studies.
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What the study found
This review follows recovery across work breaks, evenings, weekends and vacations. It connects these opportunities with work conditions, boundaries between work and non-work life, and evidence from field and intervention studies.
Scope & limitations
Integrative review of work-recovery research, emphasizing daily and longitudinal field studies.
Evidence varies across settings and time scales. Well-being, performance and physiological change need separate interpretation, and effects of particular breaks depend on study conditions.
Population & sample
Integrative review of work-recovery research, emphasizing daily and longitudinal field studies.
Exposure or intervention
Recovery opportunities and processes within and outside the working day.
Outcomes
Well-being, motivation and performance, alongside predictors and contextual differences.
Time frame
Breaks, evenings, weekends and vacations. Volume published in 2022; first online in November 2021.
Research funding
Not yet checked against the full publication.
Research conflicts of interest
Not yet checked against the full publication.
Reading scope
Based on the original publication’s abstract and bibliographic record. This is a selected reading note, not a systematic appraisal.
References
Publication record
TAP-RDN-0021 · v0.2 · English
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