Links between emotional job demands and occupational well-being: Age differences depend on type of demand

Work, Aging and Retirement

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 254-265

  Scheibe, Susanne ^a   Stamov Roßnagel, Christian ^b   Zacher, Hannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

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EID: 84982233021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20544650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/workar/wav007     Document Type: Article

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