Trait emotional intelligence and work-family conflict in fathers

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 911-916

  Biggart, Laura ^a   Corr, Philip ^a   O'Brien, Margaret ^a   Cooper, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotional intelligence; Fathers; Gender; Work family conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950341452     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.02.020     Document Type: Article

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