Combined workplace stressors and their relationship with mood, physiology, and performance.
The majority of working individuals are exposed to low levels of a large number of potential stressors. Although each is unlikely to be particularly detrimental in itself, such stressors may be harmful cumulatively. The aim of this study was to investigate whether exposures to combinations of stress...
| Publicado en: | Work & Stress Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 245 - 259 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul-Sep2006
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