Perfectionism and workaholism in employees: The role of work motivation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 733-738

  Stoeber, Joachim ^a   Davis, Charlotte R ^a   Townley, Jessica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burnout; Employees; Motivation; Multiple mediation; Perfectionism; Self determination theory; Work; Workaholism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881610444     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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