Effects of vacation from work on health and well-being: Lots of fun, quickly gone

Work and Stress

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 196-216

  de Bloom, Jessica ^a   Geurts, Sabine A E ^a   Taris, Toon W ^b   Sonnentag, Sabine ^c   de Weerth, Carolina ^a   Kompier, Michiel A J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Health; Holiday; Recovery; Vacation; Well being; Work; Work related stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954208276     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678373.2010.493385     Document Type: Article

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