Individual strategies to prevent burnout

Burnout at Work: A Psychological Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 32-55

  Demerouti, Evangelia ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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