Enough is enough: Cognitive antecedents of workaholism and its aftermath

Human Resource Management

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 157-177

  Van Wijhe, Corine I ^a   Peeters, Maria C W ^a   Schaufeli, Wilmar B ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive factors; Enough continuation rule; Exhaustion; Longitudinal; Performance based self esteem; Workaholism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893676449     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21573     Document Type: Article

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