Assessing-emotional exhaustion among the australian clergy: Internal reliability and construct validity of the scale of emotional exhaustion in ministry (seem)

Review of Religious Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 269-277

  Francis, Leslie J ^a   Kaldor, Peter ^b   Shevlin, Mark ^c   Lewis, Christopher Alan ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NCLS Research   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34247672060     PISSN: 0034673X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3512264     Document Type: Article

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