Recovery Opportunities: One Step Forward for Employee's Well-being

The concept of recovery opportunities is a key concept in recent research on stress. Starting from the Conservation of Resources Theory, the aim of this study is to explore incremental value added by recovery opportunities, on top of family and personal resources, to the employee's well-being. Well-being was operationalized as work engagement and health. Using a sample of 274 employees (72.1% woman), the results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that kin support and Neuroticism were related to health, while spouse and kin support and Conscientiousness were related to work engagement. Overall, the findings support the idea that recovery opportunities increase the well-being of employees.