Psychological climate, sickness absence and gender

Psicothema

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 169-174

  González Romá, Vicente ^a   Väänänen, Ari ^b   Ripoll, Pilar ^a   Caballer, Amparo ^a   Peiró, José M ^a   Kivimäki, Mika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

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