The present study focused on within-workday recovery, which has received less scholarly attention than has recovery outside work. We examined six break recovery experiences (detachment, relaxation, autonomy, mastery, meaning and affiliation) as possible mediators between daily emotional job demands, positive and negative affect both in the afternoon and in the evening. We conducted a one-work week diary study (N = 107) among Finnish schoolteachers with three daily measurements per workday. Most participants (88%) were women, and the average age was 50 years. The data were analysed with multilevel path modelling. Regarding daily afternoon affect, both low break detachment and low break meaning mediated the relationship between high daily emotional demands and low afternoon positive affect and high afternoon negative affect. Regarding daily evening affect, only low break meaning mediated the relationship between high daily emotional demands and low evening positive affect. In addition, afternoon positive and negative affect did mediate the relationships between break detachment and meaning and positive and negative evening affect. Our findings offer new insights into the interplay of daily job demands, break recovery experiences and affective well-being. Despite detachment, meaning, which has received limited research attention as a recovery experience, seems to play an important role in within-workday recovery. Our study also suggests that successful break recovery can benefit employees' affective well-being in the evening.

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戏剧性休息：休息恢复体验作为工作需求和下午和晚上影响之间的中介

目前的研究侧重于工作日内的恢复，与工作之外的恢复相比，它受到的学术关注较少。我们研究了六种休息恢复体验（分离、放松、自主、掌握、意义和归属感）作为日常情绪工作需求、下午和晚上的积极和消极影响之间的可能中介。我们进行了一项为期一周的日记研究（N = 107) 在芬兰学校教师中，每个工作日进行三次日常测量。大多数参与者 (88%) 是女性，平均年龄为 50 岁。使用多级路径建模分析数据。就日常下午情绪而言，低休息脱离和低休息意义均介导了高日常情绪需求与低下午积极情绪和高下午消极情绪之间的关系。对于日常夜间情绪，只有低休息意义介导了高日常情绪需求和低晚上积极情绪之间的关系。此外，下午的正负情绪确实介导了分手与意义与正负晚间情绪之间的关系。我们的研究结果为日常工作需求、休息恢复体验和情感幸福之间的相互作用提供了新的见解。尽管作为一种恢复体验受到了有限的研究关注，但意义似乎在工作日恢复中发挥着重要作用。我们的研究还表明，成功的休息恢复可以有益于员工在晚上的情感幸福感。