Psychometric assessment of workaholism measures

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-24

  Raphael Snir and Prof Itzhak Harpaz, D ^a   Schou Andreassen, Cecilie ^b   Hetland, Jørn ^b   Pallesen, Ståle ^b  

^a The Bergen Clinics Foundation ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Assessment; Psychometrics; Scale; Work addiction; Workaholism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890879486     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JMP-05-2013-0143     Document Type: Article

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