Childcare involvement, job characteristics, gender and work attitudes as predictors of emotional exhaustion and sickness absence

Work and Stress

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 221-237

  Bekker, Marrie H J ^a   Croon, Marcel A ^a   Bressers, Bibi ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absenteeism; Burnout; Childcare; Emotional exhaustion; Gender; Gender differences; Health care; Job characteristics; Nurses; Sickness absence; Work attitudes

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION SCALE OF THE MASLACH BURNOUT INVENTORY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NURSE; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 31944450119     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678370500286095     Document Type: Article

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