Comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness at work: Construct validity of a scale measuring work-related sense of coherence

SA Journal of Industrial Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vogt, Katharina ^a   Jenny, Gregor J ^a,b   Bauer, Georg F ^a,b  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84889842470     PISSN: 02585200     EISSN: 20710763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/sajip.v39i1.1111     Document Type: Article

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