Financial hardship and well-being: a cross-national comparison among the European self-employed

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 645-657

  Annink, Anne ^a   Gorgievski, Marjan ^a   Den Dulk, Laura ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

COR theory; cross national; financial hardship; self employed; subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961200362     PISSN: 1359432X     EISSN: 14640643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2016.1150263     Document Type: Article

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