Always on, never done? How the mind recovers after a stressful workday?
- Many workers experience their jobs as effortful or even stressful, which can result in strain. Although recovery from work would be an adaptive strategy to prevent the adverse effects of work-related strain, many workers face problems finding enough time to rest and to mentally disconnect from work during nonwork time. What goes on in workers’ minds after a stressful workday? What is it about their jobs that makes them think about their work? This special issue aims to bridge the gap between research on recovery processes mainly examined in Occupational Health Psychology, and research on work stress and working hours, often investigated in the field of Human Resource Management. We first summarize conceptual and theoretical streams from both fields of research. In the following, we discuss the contributions of the five special issue papers and conclude with key messages and directions for further research.
| Document Type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Johannes Wendsche, Jessica de Bloom, Christine Syrek, Tim Vahle-Hinz |
| Parent Title (English): | German Journal of Human Resource Management : Zeitschrift für Personalforschung |
| ISSN: | 2397-0022 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/23970022211004598 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/03/24 |
| Submission status: | Online first |
| Note: | © The Author(s) 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. |
| Tag: | Detachment; human resource management; problem-solving pondering; recovery; rumination; work reflection |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 65 Management, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / 650 Management und unterstützende Tätigkeiten | |
| Entry in this database: | 2021/03/26 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
