Tell me why I don't like Mondays: Investigating day of the week effects on job satisfaction and psychological well-being

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 127-142

  Taylor, Mark P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Household Panel Survey; Job satisfaction; Mental health; Panel data; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645049838     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00376.x     Document Type: Review

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