Person-Environment "Fit" and Individual Development

Handbook of Research Methods in Developmental Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 443-466

  Wachs, Theodore D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Developmental researchers; Industrial organizational psychology; Nondevelopmental research; Organism environment fit concept

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EID: 34447634860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756676.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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