Workaholism and Relationship Quality: A Spillover-Crossover Perspective

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-33

  Bakker, Arnold B ^a,b   Demerouti, Evangelia ^b,c   Burke, Ronald ^d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Research Institute of Psychology and Health   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

crossover; relationship satisfaction; work family conflict; workaholism

Indexed keywords

EID: 58749093071     PISSN: 10768998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013290     Document Type: Article

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