Work Identity and Marital Adjustment in Blue-Collar Men / David L. Gaesser and Susan Krauss Whitbourne.

The expansion theory, which maintains that an individual has unlimited energy to expend in work or marital involvement, and the drain theory, which maintains that an individual's energy for work can be depleted by overcommitment to family, compete with each other in explaining the effect of worklife...

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Main Authors: Gaesser, David L.
Whitbourne, Susan Krauss (Author)
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1983.
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Physical Description:20 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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