Development and validation of the workplace bullying scale EAPA-T

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 519-539

  Escartín, Jordi ^a   Rodríguez Carballeira, Álvaro ^a   Gómez Benito, Juana ^a   Zapf, Dieter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Instrumental study; Mobbing; Psychological abuse; Scale validation; Workplace bullying

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956750235     PISSN: 16972600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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