Need for recovery in offices: Behavior-based assessment

Journal of Environmental Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 126-134

  Smolders, Karin C H J ^a   De Kort, Yvonne A W ^a   Tenner, Ariadne D ^c   Kaiser, Florian G ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Need for recovery; Office environments; Resource depletion; Scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858423608     PISSN: 02724944     EISSN: 15229610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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