Trajectories of perceived employability and their associations with well-being at work: A three-wave study

Journal of Personnel Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 1 A, 2014, Pages 46-57

  Kirves, Kaisa ^a,b   Kinnunen, Ulla ^a   De Cuyper, Nele ^b   Mäkikangas, Anne ^c  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Growth mixture modeling; Job exhaustion; Job satisfaction; Perceived employability; Vigor at work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894091826     PISSN: 18665888     EISSN: 21905150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000103     Document Type: Article

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