TAP reading note: Leaving Work at Work: A Meta-Analysis on Employee Recovery From Work
This meta-analysis separates recovery activities, experiences and states. Their relationships with work demands, resources, well-being and performance differed, showing why one definition cannot simply stand in for the others.
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What the study found
This meta-analysis separates recovery activities, experiences and states. Their relationships with work demands, resources, well-being and performance differed, showing why one definition cannot simply stand in for the others.
Scope & limitations
Meta-analysis using 198 empirical samples across employee-recovery research.
Recovery activities, experiences and states overlap only partly. Pooled associations are limited by study designs; comparisons with other reviews should also identify overlapping samples.
Population & sample
Meta-analysis using 198 empirical samples across employee-recovery research.
Exposure or intervention
Recovery conceptualized as activities, experiences or states, and its relationship with demands and resources.
Outcomes
Well-being and performance; associations differed by the recovery construct measured.
Time frame
Studies use different observation windows. Journal volume published in 2021; first online in 2019.
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-0022 · v0.2 · English
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