Effect of job demands and social support on worker stress: A study of vdt users

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 32-40

  Yang, Chien Lin ^a   Carayon, Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 0003072943     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449299508914623     Document Type: Article

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