Applying theories of institutional helping to informal volunteering: Motives, role identity, and prosocial personality

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 101-114

  Finkelstein, Marcia A ^a   Brannick, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Motives; Prosocial personality; Role identity; Volunteerism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847727423     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2007.35.1.101     Document Type: Article

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