National wealth and thermal climate as predictors of motives for volunteer work

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-73

  Van De Vliert, Evert ^a   Huang, Xu ^b   Levine, Robert V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Egoism; National wealth; Thermal climate; Voluntary work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348017055     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022103260379     Document Type: Article

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