Job Burnout, health-Related quality of life, and sickness absence in greek health professionals

European Psychologist

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-141

  Anagnostopoulos, Fotios ^a   Niakas, Dimitris ^b  

^a PANTEION UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Burnout; Health care professionals; Job stress; Quality of life; Sickness absence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953549893     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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