Motivation to volunteer by older adults: A test of competing measurement models

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 608-621

  Okun, Morris A ^a   Barr, Alicia ^a   Herzog, A Regula ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREER; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WELLBEING;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 0032430358     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.13.4.608     Document Type: Article

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