Job stress and employee wele-being: a cross-cultural empirical study

Stress Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 153-158

  Jamal, Muhammad ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian and pakistani employees; Job stress; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CANADA; CITY; EMPLOYEE; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHER; WELLBEING;

EID: 0032864705     PISSN: 07488386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1700(199907)15:3<153::aid-smi809>3.0.co;2-0     Document Type: Article

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