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Job skill discretion and emotion control strategies as antecedents of recovery from work
Marja-liisa KinnunenLea PulkkinenNoora JalonenKatja Kokkosubject
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementLongitudinal studyjob skill discretionRelaxation (psychology)media_common.quotation_subjectControl (management)Social changeDiscretionemotional inhibitionemotional ruminationrecoveryjob resourcesRuminationwork-related stressmedicinePersonalitymedicine.symptomPsychologyEmotional exhaustionSocial psychologyApplied Psychologyta515media_commondescription
Recovery from work protects employees’ health and well-being, and therefore it is important to understand its antecedents. The aim of this study conducted among 183 middle-aged participants drawn from the Finnish Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development was to examine whether job skill discretion and emotion control strategies (emotional rumination and emotional inhibition) are related to psychological aspects of recovery from work (subjective recovery evaluation, psychological detachment and relaxation). The results of hierarchical general linear models confirmed the hypothesis that job skill discretion is positively associated with subjective recovery evaluation and relaxation. As expected, high emotional rumination predicted difficulties in psychological detachment and relaxation. Emotional inhibition moderated the relationship between job skill discretion and psychological detachment: where emotional inhibition was at a moderate level, job skill discretion was positively rela...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-12 | European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology |