Recovery from Job Stress

For decades, researchers have examined the job stressors-outcomes relationship for individuals and organizations. However, until recently, we have known very little about the processes that reduce and reverse the negative effects within the stress process. This volume aims at filling this gap in the literature by focusing on processes related to recovery and unwinding from job stress. The book integrates various perspectives on the topic. One chapter covers physiological, particularly anabolic processes related to recovery. Another chapter summarizes research on sleep as a core recovery mechanism and its antecedents in the work situation and its effect on job-related outcomes. Two chapters deal with short-term within - person processes by focusing on micro approaches and by putting particular emphasis on affect regulations. One chapter is devoted to research methodology in the domain of recovery and provides advice about how to conduct recovery research. Finally, two chapters integrate the recovery topic into a larger context; one chapter discusses recovery in the context of the work-family literature, whereas the other presents a model how business trips can be seen as a specific recovery episode. The chapters demonstrate that recovery research is a very promising approach for understanding the processes of job stress and relief from job stress more fully. Moreover, the chapters illustrate that recovery is a very important topic for practical job-stress interventions that have the potential to reduce the negative impact of job stress for employee health and well-being. Book jacket.