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Recovery from job stress: The stressor-detachment model as an integrative framework
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This paper reviews empirical evidence on psychological detachment from work during nonwork time. Psychological detachment as a core recovery experience refers to refraining from job-related activities and thoughts during nonwork time; it implies to mentally disengage from one's job while being away from work. Using the stressor-detachment model as an organizing framework, we describe findings from between-person and within-person studies, relying on cross-sectional, longitudinal, and daily-diary designs. Overall, research shows that job stressors, particularly workload, predict low levels of psychological detachment. A lack of detachment in turn predicts high strain levels and poor individual well-being (e.g., burnout and lower life satisfaction). Psychological detachment seems to be both a mediator and a moderator in the relationship between job stressors on the one hand and strain and poor well-being on the other hand. We propose possible extensions of the stressor-detachment model by suggesting moderator variables grounded in the transactional stress model. We further discuss avenues for future research and offer practical implications. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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“According to the stressor-detachment model [34], work stressors impair psychological detachment, which, in turn mediates the relationship between work stressors and well-being.”
From Boundary violations and university teachers' well-being during mandatory telework: Recovery's role and gender differences (2024) · cites this paper as [34]
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“More interestingly, the results of this study also supported the assumption that the absence of recovery was the explanatory mechanism of the effect of boundary violations on well-being, because they consume resources and do not allow teleworkers to recover, which does not allow for the replacement of resources and negatively affect well-being [34].”
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“On the one hand, being preoccupied with work during leisure time is likely to impair recovery in terms of work to home interference [8] or lack of psychological detachment [9,10].”
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- Authors
- Sonnentag, S., & Fritz, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Mannheim (DE)
- Portland State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sonnentag, Sabine
- Venue
- Journal of Organizational Behavior
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-04-11
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- S1
- Pages
- S72-S103
- ISSN
- 0894-3796 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1739373361
- Cited by
- 1,307
- References
- 137
- Citations by year
- 2026: 204 · 2025: 187 · 2024: 142 · 2023: 134 · 2022: 125 · 2021: 101 · 2020: 95 · 2019: 80 · 2018: 76 · 2017: 86 · 2016: 49 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 78.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Organizational Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Keywords
- psychological detachment, occupational stress, work recovery, workload, burnout, life satisfaction, occupational strain, transactional model of stress and coping, work-nonwork boundaries, daily diary study
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