Attachment, personality, and volunteering: Placing volunteerism in an attachment-theoretical framework

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-74

  Erez, Ayelet ^a   Mikulincer, Mario ^b   van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H ^a   Kroonenberg, Pieter M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Altruism; Attachment theory; Caregiving; Personality; Volunteerism

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248831594     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.07.021     Document Type: Article

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