A FIT Approach to Work Stress and Health

The Handbook of Work and Health Psychology: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 549-568

  Fletcher, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"SCIchange"; Correlation in stress research; Negative affectivity (NA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973469448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470013400.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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