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    "title": "TAP reading note: The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: development and validation of a measure for assessing recuperation and unwinding from work",
    "description": "The Recovery Experience Questionnaire distinguishes psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery and control during non-work time. It measures experiences associated with unwinding rather than directly measuring restored physiological function.",
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      "id": "sonnentag-2007",
      "title": "The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: development and validation of a measure for assessing recuperation and unwinding from work",
      "authors": "Sabine Sonnentag · Charlotte Fritz",
      "journal": "Journal of Occupational Health Psychology",
      "year": "2007",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-8998.12.3.204",
      "doi": "10.1037/1076-8998.12.3.204",
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      {
        "id": "sonnentag-2007",
        "title": "The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: development and validation of a measure for assessing recuperation and unwinding from work",
        "authors": "Sabine Sonnentag · Charlotte Fritz",
        "journal": "Journal of Occupational Health Psychology",
        "year": "2007",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-8998.12.3.204",
        "doi": "10.1037/1076-8998.12.3.204",
        "pmid": "17638488"
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      {
        "id": "finding",
        "title": "What the study found",
        "paragraphs": [
          "The Recovery Experience Questionnaire distinguishes psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery and control during non-work time. It measures experiences associated with unwinding rather than directly measuring restored physiological function."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "limits",
        "title": "Scope & limitations",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Scale development and validation; calibration and cross-validation samples totaled 930 people, with construct relationships examined in a 271-person subsample.",
          "Questionnaire dimensions are not four proven treatments. Self-reported experiences and actual changes in performance or physiology need separate measurement."
        ]
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        "id": "sample",
        "title": "Population & sample",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Scale development and validation; calibration and cross-validation samples totaled 930 people, with construct relationships examined in a 271-person subsample."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "exposure",
        "title": "Exposure or intervention",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Four self-reported experiences during leisure time after work."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "outcomes",
        "title": "Outcomes",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Factor structure and relationships with job stressors, well-being, coping and personality."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "duration",
        "title": "Time frame",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Development and validation studies published in 2007; not a recovery-duration experiment."
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          "Not yet checked against the full publication."
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          "Not yet checked against the full publication."
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          "Based on the original publication’s abstract and bibliographic record. This is a selected reading note, not a systematic appraisal."
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