An older-age advantage? Emotion regulation and emotional experience after a day of work

Work, Aging and Retirement

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 307-320

  Scheibe, Susanne ^a   Spieler, Ines ^b,c   Kuba, Katharina ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Social and Decision Sciences   (Germany)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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EID: 85035109123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20544650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/workar/waw010     Document Type: Article

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