Occupation-Specific Precursors of Stress among Greek Police Officers: The Roles of Rank and Gender

International Journal of Police Science and Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 334-344

  Antoniou, Alexander Stamatios ^a  

^a Dept Math   (Greece)

Author keywords

context specificity; gender differences; rank differences; stress assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949318888     PISSN: 14613557     EISSN: 14781603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1350/ijps.2009.11.3.136     Document Type: Article

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