How to find the mean residence time for a continuous time Markov chain

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Given a finite Markov chain $X(t)$ with a known generator $Q$.

What is the mean time for the Markov chain to stay at a given state $i$?

Is the mean time to stay at $i$ just the reciprocal of $-Q_{i,i}$ ?

Can you please point to a reference.