Cohabiting dual-earner couples are increasingly common. However, previous recovery research mainly focused on employees independently of others, thereby overlooking an essential part of their life. Therefore, we take a closer look at dual-earner couples' recovery processes and link this research to a circadian perspective. We assumed that unfinished tasks impede engagement in time with the partner (absorption in joint activities, directing attention toward the partner) as well as recovery experiences (detachment, relaxation), whereas engagement in time with the partner should boost recovery experiences. Integrating a circadian perspective, we proposed that employees from couples with matching circadian preferences (chronotype) benefit more from engagement in time with their partner (i.e., stronger relationships with recovery experiences). Additionally, we explored whether a match between partners' chronotypes buffers the negative relationship between unfinished tasks and engagement in joint time. We conducted a daily diary study with 143 employees from 79 dual-earner couples, providing data on 1,052 days. A three-level path model showed that unfinished tasks were negatively related to absorption in joint activities and detachment, whereas absorption positively predicted recovery experiences. Furthermore, the couples' chronotype match mattered in the interplay with engagement in joint time: for couples with higher (vs. lower) chronotype match, experiencing detachment depended on absorption while for couples with lower (vs. higher) chronotype match, attention was even harmful for experiencing relaxation. Thus, it is crucial to consider employees' partners when investigating their recovery processes because employees cannot act independently if they also need to take their partner's circadian rhythms into account. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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这是一个匹配：匹配的时间类型与双职工夫妇每天从工作中恢复的相关性。

双职工同居越来越普遍。然而，以往的恢复研究主要集中在独立于其他人的员工身上，从而忽视了他们生活中必不可少的一部分。因此，我们仔细研究双职工夫妇的恢复过程，并将这项研究与昼夜节律的观点联系起来。我们假设未完成的任务会阻碍与合作伙伴的及时互动（专注于联合活动、将注意力转移到合作伙伴身上）以及恢复体验（分离、放松），而与合作伙伴的及时互动应该会促进恢复体验。结合昼夜节律的观点，我们建议来自具有匹配昼夜节律偏好（时间型）的夫妻的员工从与伴侣的及时接触中获益更多（即，与恢复经历的关系更牢固）。此外，我们探讨了合作伙伴的时间类型之间的匹配是否缓冲了未完成的任务与参与联合时间之间的负面关系。我们对来自 79 对双职工夫妇的 143 名员工进行了每日日记研究，提供了 1,052 天的数据。三级路径模型表明，未完成的任务与关节活动中的吸收和分离呈负相关，而吸收与恢复体验呈正相关。此外，夫妻的时间类型匹配在共同时间参与的相互作用中很重要：对于时间类型匹配较高（相对于较低）的夫妇，体验分离取决于吸收，而对于时间类型匹配较低（相对于较高）的夫妇，注意力是均匀的对体验放松有害。因此，重要的是要考虑员工的 合作伙伴在调查他们的恢复过程时，因为如果员工还需要考虑他们合作伙伴的昼夜节律，他们就不能独立行动。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。