Helping and proactive extra-role behaviors: The influence of motives, goal orientation, and social context

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2282-2293

  Chiaburu, Dan S ^a   Marinova, Sophia V ^b   Lim, Audrey S ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Communion; Goal orientation; Helping; Meta motives; Motivation; Proactive behaviors; Social context

Indexed keywords

EID: 34648831563     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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