Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology, Vol. 2.

“What did you do this weekend?” Relationships between weekend activities, recovery experiences, and changes in work‐related well‐being

“…They have proposed that some psychological mechanisms -i.e., recovery experiences -may be responsible for changes in WRWB observed during the next working day. The ERM theory [16,,17] postulates that employees use their personal resources during efforts they make at work and they are only able to recover when they distance themselves from their job and its demands. In light of this theory, psychological detachment and relaxation are considered as experiences which do not use any personal energetic resources and do not involve any demands.…”