Personal need for structure and occupational strain: An investigation of structural models and interaction with job complexity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 209-222

  Elovainio, Marko ^a   Kivimäki, Mika ^b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cognitive styles; Local government employees; Occupational stress; Personality characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006691385     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00038-5     Document Type: Article

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