The relationship between core self-evaluations, employment commitment and well-being in the unemployed

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 310-315

  Creed, Peter A ^a   Lehmann, Kim ^a   Hood, Michelle ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Control; Core self evaluations; Employment commitment; Incongruence theory; Neuroticism; Self efficacy; Self esteem; Unemployed

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349280324     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.03.021     Document Type: Article

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