Regulatory job stressors and their within-person relationships with ego depletion: The roles of state anxiety, self-control effort, and job autonomy

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 92, Issue , 2016, Pages 22-32

  Prem, Roman ^a   Kubicek, Bettina ^a   Diestel, Stefan ^b   Korunka, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ego depletion; Job autonomy; Job stress; Multilevel moderated serial mediation analyses; Self control effort; State anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947782139     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2015.11.004     Document Type: Article

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