With the growing importance placed on work-nonwork interface, scholars and practitioners have been paying more attention to life after work than ever. The purpose of this study was to examine group differences based on marital status and gender in their life after-work and to provide the current picture of recovery activities and experiences among Koreans. Using the newly developed recovery activity characteristics (RAC) scale (Alameer et al., 2023), we conducted profile analyses through repeated measures multivariate analyses of variance on a sample of Korean workers (n = 357) categorized by binary marital status (single or married). As a result, we found a significant interaction between RAC scores and four groups (single men, single women, married men, and married women), having no parallel profile patterns among these groups over the seven RAC means. A significant group effect was additionally found, and the contrast was particularly noticeable between single men and single women. Single men generally had higher means than other groups, whereas single women had lower means in general. Groups also differed in their recovery experience profiles. Regarding mastery experience, single men displayed the highest mean and married women displayed the lowest. As to control experience, single women showed the highest mean, whereas married men showed the lowest. The results suggest tailored interventions based on target employees for work-nonwork enrichment.
