Personality trait scores among occupationally active bullied persons and witnesses to bullying

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 387-399

  Persson, Roger ^a   Hogh, Annie ^b   Hansen, Åse Marie ^a   Nordander, Catarina ^c   Ohlsson, Kerstina ^c   Balogh, Istvan ^c   Österberg, Kai ^c   Ørbæk, Palle ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Anxiety; Extraversion; Harassment; Job content questionnaire; Work environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880435225     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-009-9132-6     Document Type: Article

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