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Sabine Sonnentag

Sabine Sonnentag

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Psychology

D-Index
94
Citations
43011
World Ranking
797
National Ranking
26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Overview

Sabine Sonnentag is affiliated with the University of Mannheim in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and business management, with a focus on organizational behavior and human resource management. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, general health professions, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Key research topics addressed by Sonnentag include:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Workaholism, burnout, and well-being

Their recent publications feature studies on recovery and well-being at work, reflecting ongoing interests in health and occupational psychology. Notable papers include:

  • Recovery from Work: Advancing the Field Toward the Future, 2021, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
  • A review on health and well-being at work: More than stressors and strains, 2023, Personnel Psychology
  • Positive work reflection during the evening and next-day work engagement: Testing mediating mechanisms and cyclical processes, 2021, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

Other influential research connected with their work includes:

  • Pandemics: Implications for research and practice in industrial and organizational psychology, 2021, Industrial and Organizational Psychology (authored by Cort W. Rudolph)
  • Beyond depletion: Daily self-control motivation as an explanation of self-control failure at work, 2020, Journal of Organizational Behavior (authored by Wilken Wehrt)

Sonnentag has also authored book publications, including "Work and Rest: A Topic for Work and Organizational Psychology" published in 2020 by Psychology Press eBooks.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include Jette Völker, Wilken Wehrt, Hadar Nesher Shoshan, Anne Casper, and Theresa Koch.

Prominent publication venues where Sonnentag's work appears regularly are:

  • Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
  • Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
  • Industrial and Organizational Psychology

In 2011, Sabine Sonnentag received recognition from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, specifically cited for contributions in psychology and cognitive sciences.

Best Publications

  • Recovery, Work Engagement, and Proactive Behavior: A New Look at the Interface Between Nonwork and Work

    Sabine Sonnentag

  • The Recovery Experience Questionnaire: Development and validation of a measure for assessing recuperation and unwinding from work.

    Sabine Sonnentag;Charlotte Fritz

  • Recovery from job stress: The stressor-detachment model as an integrative framework

    Sabine Sonnentag;Charlotte Fritz

  • Diary Studies in Organizational Research: An Introduction and Some Practical Recommendations

    Sandra Ohly;Sabine Sonnentag;Cornelia Niessen;Dieter Zapf

  • Switching off mentally: predictors and consequences of psychological detachment from work during off-job time.

    Sabine Sonnentag;Ute-Vera Bayer

  • Recovery as an explanatory mechanism in the relation between acute stress reactions and chronic health impairment.

    Sabine A E Geurts;Sabine Sonnentag

  • Organizational error management culture and its impact on performance : a two-study replication

    Cathy van Dyck;Michael Frese;Markus Baer;Sabine Sonnentag

  • Work, recovery activities, and individual well-being: A diary study.

    Sabine Sonnentag

  • "Did you have a nice evening?" A day-level study on recovery experiences, sleep, and affect.

    Sabine Sonnentag;Carmen Binnewies;Eva J. Mojza

  • Job characteristics and off-job activities as predictors of need for recovery, well-being, and fatigue.

    Sabine Sonnentag;Fred R. H. Zijlstra

  • Recovery, well-being, and performance-related outcomes: the role of workload and vacation experiences.

    Charlotte Fritz;Sabine Sonnentag

  • Staying Well and Engaged When Demands Are High: The Role of Psychological Detachment.

    Sabine Sonnentag;Carmen Binnewies;Eva J. Mojza

  • Routinization, work characteristics and their relationships with creative and proactive behaviors

    Sandra Ohly;Sabine Sonnentag;Franziska Pluntke

  • Job stressors, emotional exhaustion, and need for recovery: A multi-source study on the benefits of psychological detachment

    Sabine Sonnentag;Iris Kuttler;Charlotte Fritz

  • Recovery, health, and job performance: effects of weekend experiences.

    Charlotte Fritz;Sabine Sonnentag

  • Experience Sampling Methods: A Discussion of Critical Trends and Considerations for Scholarly Advancement:

    Allison S. Gabriel;Nathan P. Podsakoff;Daniel J. Beal;Brent A. Scott

  • Advances in recovery research: What have we learned? What should be done next?

    Sabine Sonnentag;Laura Venz;Anne Casper

  • Learning how to recover from job stress: effects of a recovery training program on recovery, recovery-related self-efficacy, and well-being.

    Verena C. Hahn;Carmen Binnewies;Sabine Sonnentag;Eva J. Mojza

  • Being engaged at work and detached at home : a week-level study on work engagement, psychological detachment, and affect

    Sabine Sonnentag;Eva J. Mojza;Carmen Binnewies;Annika Scholl

  • Daily performance at work : feeling recovered in the morning as a predictor of day-level job performance

    Carmen Binnewies;Sabine Sonnentag;Eva J. Mojza

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Frese
Michael Frese Asia School of Business
Sabine A. E. Geurts
Sabine A. E. Geurts Radboud University
Evangelia Demerouti
Evangelia Demerouti Eindhoven University of Technology
Michiel A. J. Kompier
Michiel A. J. Kompier Radboud University
Guido Hertel
Guido Hertel University of Münster
Jessica de Bloom
Jessica de Bloom Tampere University
Dimitri van der Linden
Dimitri van der Linden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Arnold B. Bakker
Arnold B. Bakker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Carolina de Weerth
Carolina de Weerth Radboud University
Toon W. Taris
Toon W. Taris Utrecht University

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