Work-family conflicts, threat-appraisal, self-efficacy and emotional exhaustion

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 164-182

  Glaser, Wendy ^a   Hecht, Tracy D ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Burnout; Emotional exhaustion; Employees behaviour; Employees relations; Self efficacy; Stress; Threat appraisal; Troubled workers; Work family conflicts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874170792     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683941311300685     Document Type: Article

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