How Job Demands Affect Partners' Experience of Exhaustion: Integrating Work-Family Conflict and Crossover Theory

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 901-911

  Bakker, Arnold B ^a   Demerouti, Evangelia ^b   Dollard, Maureen F ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

crossover; exhaustion; social undermining; work family conflict

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALITY;

ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 48049106508     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.93.4.901     Document Type: Article

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