The remains of the workday: Impact of job stress and exhaustion on marital interaction in police couples

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1052-1067

  Roberts, Nicole A ^a   Levenson, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Exhaustion; Job stress; Marriage; Physiology; Police work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035511459     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2001.01052.x     Document Type: Article

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