“Yuck, that’s disgusting!”—“No, not to me!”: Antecedents of disgust in geriatric care and its relation to emotional exhaustion and intention to leave

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 247-259

  Goerdeler, Katharina Julia ^a   Wegge, Jürgen ^a   Schrod, Nadine ^a   Bilinska, Paulina ^a   Rudolf, Matthias ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective events theory; Core disgust; Intention to leave; Multi level structural equation model; Organizational identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925486261     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: 15736644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-014-9431-4     Document Type: Article

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