"Better than" performance motives as roots of satisfaction across more and less developed countries

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 380-397

  van de Vliert, Evert ^a   Janssen, Onne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0036334795     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00222102033004002     Document Type: Article

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