The application of diary methods to examine workers' daily recovery during off-job time

A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 72-84

  Binnewies, Carmen ^a   Sonnentag, Sabine ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

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EID: 84905810277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203078990     Document Type: Chapter

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