title: Recovery intention: its association with fatigue in the working population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the association of the intention to recover from work with fatigue and its moderating effect on the link between occupational characteristics and fatigue.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three hundred and eighty Austrian employees (nurses, teachers and administrative staff) participated in a survey assessing fatigue, the intention to create and engage in recovery activities and effort-reward imbalance as a measure of job characteristics. Data were analysed by regression analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Recovery intention was negatively associated with fatigue. This association was especially pronounced under conditions of high effort-reward imbalance, thus suggesting a buffering effect. Effort-reward imbalance, in return, was positively related to prolonged fatigue, indicating that fatigue was partly work related in the present sample.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Individuals differ in their intent to engage in recovery activities. Those high in recovery intention are less exhausted, especially under conditions of more demanding and less rewarding work characteristics. Thus, a promotion of recovery intentions could contribute to the prevention of work-related fatigue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Hygiene, Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, 1090, Vienna, Austria. gerhard.blasche@meduniwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Blasche
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Marktl
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003289:Convalescence / Q000523:psychology*; D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005221:Fatigue / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D055809:Illness Behavior; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007899:Leisure Activities / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000523:psychology*