“…Third, our findings contribute to the literature on the PCT and rumination. Scholars who have adopted the PCT have largely assumed that perseverative cognition is only caused by stressful demands or inhibition of goal progression, resulting in negative psychological and somatic consequences (Brosschot, Gerin, & Thayer, 2006;Flaxman, Stride, Newman, & Ménard, 2023;Liang, Cai, & Duan, 2023;Verkuil, Brosschot, Gebhardt, & Thayer, 2010), and they have postulated that the challenging demands can generate harmful effects on recovery (Wach, Stephan, Weinberger, & Wegge, 2021). By integrating the PCT with the SCM, we deconstruct two triggers (i.e., challenging demands and job resources) of flow and propose that they can jointly activate the perseverative cognitive process that sustains the original positive influence of daily flow experience.…”