Coping with Workplace Stress: A Multiple-Group Comparison of Female Managers and Clerical Workers

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-78

  Long, Bonita C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 0002571313     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.45.1.65     Document Type: Article

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