BİREYSEL FAKTÖRLERİN İŞ SONRASI TOPARLANMA DENEYİMLERİ ÜZERİNDEKİ ROLÜ

Abstract

Today, individuals devote a substantial portion of their time to work and work-related activities. In this context, recovery experiences after work play a critical role in helping employees disengage from work-related demands, restore resources depleted during the workday, and sustain their health, well-being, and performance. Recovery from work refers to the process by which work-related psychophysiological activation gradually returns to baseline during nonwork time. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of employees’ work centrality on their recovery experiences after work and to investigate the moderating role of psychological capital in this relationship. Data were collected from white-collar employees aged 18 and older working in various sectors in Türkiye, including both public- and private-sector organizations. In addition to demographic questions, the Work Centrality Scale developed by Paullay et al. (1994), the Psychological Capital Scale developed by Avey et al. (2011a), and the Recovery Experience Questionnaire developed by Sonnentag and Fritz (2007) were used. Data were collected through an online survey using convenience and snowball sampling methods, and analyses were conducted with a total of 359 participants. Data analyses were performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 31, AMOS 24, and PROCESS Macro v4.2 Model 1 (Hayes, 2022). The regression analyses conducted to test the hypotheses revealed that work centrality significantly and negatively predicted recovery from work. Regarding its effects on the subdimensions of recovery, work centrality was found to negatively affect psychological detachment and relaxation, whereas it had no significant effect on mastery experiences or control. The moderation analyses indicated that the moderating effect of psychological capital on the relationships between work centrality and recovery from work and its subdimensions was not statistically significant. Examination of the model further showed that psychological capital, which was included as the moderator, had significant positive direct effects on overall recovery from work, as well as on relaxation, mastery experiences, and control, but not on psychological detachment.