Managing Multiple Roles: Personality, Stress, and Work-Family Interference in Dual-Earner Couples

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-19

  Wierda Boer, Hilde H ^a   Gerris, Jan R M ^a   Vermulst, Ad A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

couples; job stress; parenting stress; personality; work family interference

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249153376     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001.30.1.6     Document Type: Article

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