Zeigarnik’s Sleepless Nights: How Unfinished Tasks at the End of the Week Impair Employee Sleep on the Weekend Through Rumination

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

• Publication date

  2017-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/ocp0000031PMID 27101340
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