Costs of Simultaneous Coping With Emotional Dissonance and Self-Control Demands at Work: Results From Two German Samples

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 643-653

  Diestel, Stefan ^a   Schmidt, Klaus Helmut ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absenteeism; Burnout; Depressive symptoms; Emotional dissonance; Self control demands

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CONTROL; WORKPLACE;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GERMANY; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956327454     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022134     Document Type: Article

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