Does workload cause work-home interference or is it the other way around?

Stress and Health

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 303-314

  Dikkers, Josje S E ^a,b   Geurts, Sabine A E ^b   Kompier, Michiel A J ^b   Taris, Toon W ^b   Houtman, Irene L D ^c   van den Heuvel, Floor ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causal relationships; Longitudinal research; Work home interference; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EFFECT SIZE; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HOME STRESS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POLICE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 37849048729     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1151     Document Type: Article

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