The role of satisfaction with occupational status, neuroticism, financial strain and categories of experience in predicting mental health in the unemployed

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 435-447

  Creed, Peter A ^a   Muller, Juanita ^a   Machin, Michael A ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Categories of employment; Financial strain; Latent functions; Manifest functions; Neuroticism; Satisfaction; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010656012     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00035-0     Document Type: Article

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