Recovery from Work: Advancing the Field Toward the Future
Sabine Sonnentag · Bonnie Hayden Cheng · Stacey L. Parker
Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior · 2022
What the research tells us
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 & interpretation
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.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- Integrative review of work-recovery research, emphasizing daily and longitudinal field studies.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- 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.
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Founded and supported by Resilio.
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