Subjective health and its relationship with working time variables and job stressors: Sequence or general factor model?

Work and Stress

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-178

  Steinmetz, Holger ^a   Schmidt, Peter ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burnout; Chronic fatigue; Exhaustion; Objective; Sensitization; Sequence model; Subjective health; Work related stress; Working time

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954187533     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678373.2010.489784     Document Type: Article

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