Beyond just being there: An examination of the impact of attitudes, materialism, and self-esteem on the quality of helping behavior in Youth volunteers

Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 27-45

  Briggs, Elten ^a   Landry, Tim D ^b   Wood, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Helping behavior; Materialism; Selfesteem; Teenagers; Volunteering

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548490506     PISSN: 10495142     EISSN: 15406997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J054v18n02_02     Document Type: Article

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