How feeling happy during off-job activities helps successful recovery from work: A day reconstruction study

Work and Stress

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 198-216

  Oerlemans, Wido G M ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^a,b   Demerouti, Evangelia ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

broaden and build theory; day reconstruction method; diary study; happiness; recovery from work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899990111     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678373.2014.901993     Document Type: Article

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