Big five personality and effort-reward imbalance factors in employees' depressive symptoms

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1744-1755

  Vearing, Angela ^a   Mak, Anita S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Big five personality factors; Depression; Effort reward imbalance; Employee wellbeing; Neuroticism; Occupational health; Social support; Work stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 34648813452     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.05.011     Document Type: Article

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