Specialty choice, stress and personality: Their relationships over time

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 751-755

  Firth Cozens, Jenny ^a,b,c   Lema, Victoria Caceres ^a   Firth, Robert A ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Santiago dc Compostcla   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICINE; MENTAL STRESS; PERSONALITY; SELF CONCEPT; VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE;

CAREER CHOICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONALITY; SELF EFFICACY; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE;

EID: 0033201583     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.1999.60.10.1222     Document Type: Article

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