Job Involvement as Obsession-Compulsion: Some Preliminary Empirical Findings
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 53 (3_suppl) , 1191-1197
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.53.3f.1191
Abstract
S. Schwartz suggested that job involvement may be better understood when viewed as obsession-compulsion. In this paper several of the relationships proposed by Schwartz were examined; results offer preliminary support for his viewpoint.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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