What makes a good work break? Off-job and on-job recovery as predictors of employee health
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Job characteristics and off-job activities as predictors of need for recovery, well-being, and fatigue.
Two empirical studies examined need for recovery (i.e., a person's desire to be temporarily relieved from demands in order to restore his or her resources) as a mediator in the relationship between poor job characteristics (high job demands, low job control) and high off-job demands, on the one hand, and fatigue and poor individual well-being, on the other hand. Multilevel data from a daily sur...
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عنوان ژورنال: Industrial Health
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0019-8366,1880-8026
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.2019-0097