Ambulatory assessment in industrial/organizational psychology: Fruitful examples and methodological issues

European Psychologist

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 120-131

  Klumb, Petra ^a   Elfering, Achim ^b   Herre, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coping; Cross over; Job satisfaction; Recovery; Social interactions; Stress; Time sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649306632     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040.14.2.120     Document Type: Article

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