Work-family conflict and crossover in volunteer emergency service workers

Work and Stress

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 342-358

  Cowlishaw, Sean ^a,b   Evans, Lynette ^a   McLennan, Jim ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crossover; Emergency service workers; Volunteer work; Work family conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650284957     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678373.2010.532947     Document Type: Article

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