The Role of Social Support in the Process of Work Stress: A Meta-Analysis

1999/04/01 by Chockalingam Viswesvaran, Juan I. Sanchez, Juan I. Sánchez +2 · 1,320 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Health Professions · Medicine · Psychology · #Argument (complex analysis) #Clinical psychology #Developmental psychology #Employment and Welfare Studies #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Medicine #Meta-analysis #Psychology #Social psychology #Social stress #Social support #Stress (linguistics) #Stressor #Workplace Health and Well-being

paper · doi:10.1006/jvbe.1998.1661

published in Journal of Vocational Behavior 54(2), 314-334 (Elsevier BV)

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