"Take a break?!" Off-job recovery, job demands, and job resources as predictors of health, active learning, and creativity

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 321-348

  de Jonge, Jan ^a   Spoor, Ellen ^a   Sonnentag, Sabine ^b   Dormann, Christian ^c   van den Tooren, Marieke ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burnout; Creativity; Detachment from work; Job demands; Job resources; Off job recovery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860824709     PISSN: 1359432X     EISSN: 14640643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2011.576009     Document Type: Article

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