All day and all of the night: The relative contribution of two dimensions of workaholism to well-being in self-employed workers

Work and Stress

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-165

  Taris, Toon W ^a   Geurts, Sabine A E ^a   Schaufeli, Wilmar B ^b   Blonk, Roland W B ^b,c   Lagerveld, Suzanne E ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Burnout; Effort expenditure; Entrepreneurs; Self employed; Well being; Work related stress; Workaholism; Working hours

Indexed keywords

EID: 46449093145     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678370701758074     Document Type: Article

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