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Work & Stress
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How do occupational stressor-strain effects vary with time? A review and meta-analysis of the relevance of time lags in longitudinal studies

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Pages 9-30 | Received 07 Jun 2012, Accepted 16 Aug 2013, Published online: 22 Jan 2014

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