Highly engaged but burned out: intra-individual profiles in the US workforce

Career Development International

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 86-105

  Moeller, Julia ^a,b   Ivcevic, Zorana ^a   White, Arielle E ^a   Menges, Jochen I ^c   Brackett, Marc A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burnout; Configural frequency analysis; Dark side of engagement; Demands resources model; Intra individual analyses; Latent profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040790453     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/CDI-12-2016-0215     Document Type: Article

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