How does spouse career support relate to employee turnover? Work interfering with family and job satisfaction as mediators

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 194-212

  Huffman, Ann H ^a   Casper, Wendy J ^b   Payne, Stephanie C ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career support; Job satisfaction; Spouse support; Turnover behavior; Work family conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892953113     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.1862     Document Type: Article

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