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“Did you have a nice evening?” A day-level study on recovery experiences, sleep, and affect
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In this study, the authors used a within-person design to examine the relation between recovery experiences (psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery experiences) during leisure time, sleep, and affect in the next morning. Daily survey data gathered over the course of 1 work week from 166 public administration employees analyzed with a hierarchical linear modeling approach showed that low psychological detachment from work during the evening predicted negative activation and fatigue, whereas mastery experiences during the evening predicted positive activation and relaxation predicted serenity. Sleep quality showed relations with all affective states variables. This study adds to research on job-stress recovery and affect regulation by showing which specific experiences from the nonwork domain may improve affect before the start of the next working day.
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“In addition to the controls used in Studies 1a and 1b, and to rule out alternative explanations and more accurately isolate the effects of LC on our variables of interest, we controlled for the following variables: sleep quantity, sleep quality, recovery experiences (psychological detachment, relaxation, and mastery; Sonnentag et al., 2008), passive leisure (e.g., watching tv; Joudrey and Wallace,”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sonnentag, S., Binnewies, C., & Mojza, E. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Konstanz (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Sonnentag, Sabine
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 2008
- Volume
- 93
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 674-684
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W2153535564
- Cited by
- 741
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 38.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- nbn-resolving.de
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Journal of Applied Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management › Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Keywords
- psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery experiences, leisure, sleep quality, emotion regulation, fatigue, tranquility, activation, public administration employees, within-person variability
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Affect, Convalescence, Female, Humans, Male, Psychology, Relaxation, Sleep
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