How the Workplace Plays a Role in a Good Life: Using the Job Demands-Resources Model in Predicting Correctional Staff Life Satisfaction

Life satisfaction is a positive overall feeling towards one’s life and is an important factor for employees and their employers. There has been little research on life satisfaction of staff working at correctional institutions who play an important security role in the care, custody, and control of...

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Authors: Lambert, Eric G. (Author) ; Hogan, Nancy L. (Author) ; Worley, Robert M. (Author) ; Worley, Vidisha Barua (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: American journal of criminal justice
Year: 2022, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 202-223
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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