A growing body of research indicates that employees need to unwind and restore resources after work that are lost through recovery in order to maintain and improve well-being and performance. Despite recovery being described as a daily, cyclical process made up of four main recovery experiences psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery, and control that occur in conjunction with one another, it has not been empirically investigated as such. To illuminate the temporal dynamics of combinations of recovery experiences and the recovery process, I investigate profiles of daily recovery experience trajectories across the evening. Further, I investigate how job demands and resources relate to these profiles, and how profile membership predicts next-day work and well-being outcomes. My results provide insight into how the recovery process unfolds daily, what work experiences change this process, and how differing recovery processes relates to next-day outcomes.
