Social Support, Unfulfilled Expectations, and Affective Well-being on Return to Employment

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 446-458

  Seiger, Christine P ^a   Wiese, Bettina S ^b  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affective well being; Expectations; Maternity leave; Return to work; Social support; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952522641     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00817.x     Document Type: Article

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