Authenticity at Work: Development and Validation of an Individual Authenticity Measure at Work

Journal of Happiness Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-18

  van den Bosch, Ralph ^a,b   Taris, Toon W ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DilemmaFoundation ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Authenticity at work; Positive psychology; Scale development; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893861317     PISSN: 13894978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10902-013-9413-3     Document Type: Article

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