'Shared job strain': A new approach for assessing the validity of job stress measurements

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 293-310

  Semmer, Norbert ^a   Zapf, Dieter ^b   Greif, Siegfried ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

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EID: 0030514820     PISSN: 09631798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8325.1996.tb00616.x     Document Type: Article

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