Assessment of work related stress among female public service workers in Kaunas

• Authors: Gintare Kaliniene , Ruta Ustinaviciene , Lina Skemiene
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Keywords

EN

Work-related stress; Psychosocial work environment; Sense of coherence

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 861-870

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2013

online

6 - 12 - 2013

Contributors

author

Gintare Kaliniene

• Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine of Medical Academy of Kaunas University of Health Sciences, Eivenių g. 4-115, LT -50161, Kaunas, Lithuania

author

Ruta Ustinaviciene

• Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine of Medical Academy of Kaunas University of Health Sciences, Eivenių g. 4-115, LT -50161, Kaunas, Lithuania

author

Lina Skemiene

• Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine of Medical Academy of Kaunas University of Health Sciences, Eivenių g. 4-115, LT -50161, Kaunas, Lithuania

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DOI

10.2478/s11536-013-0222-1