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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Recovery Experience Questionnaire.

REQ

What it measures
Recovery from work during off-job time: Psychological Detachment, Relaxation, Mastery, Control.
Length and format
16 (4 x 4). 5-pt agreement Likert (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many incl. DE, EN, ES (validated in AR/BR/CL/ES), JA, SV, LT, etc.
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Sonnentag, S., & Fritz, C. (2007). The Recovery Experience Questionnaire. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 12(3), 204-221.

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