Age and motives for volunteering: Testing hypotheses derived from socioemotional selectivity theory

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-239

  Okun, Morris A ^a   Schultz, Amy ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; HYPOTHESIS; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOEMOTIONAL SELECTIVE THEORY; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 0037636619     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.2.231     Document Type: Article

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