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Implications of Overqualification for Work–Family Conflict: Bringing Too Much to the Table?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Satoris S. Culbertson*
Affiliation:
Kansas State University
Maura J. Mills
Affiliation:
Hofstra University
Ann H. Huffman
Affiliation:
Northern Arizona University
*
E-mail: satoris@ksu.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, Kansas State University, 421 Bluemont Hall, 1100 Mid-Campus Drive, Manhattan, KS 66506-5302

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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