A person-environment fit approach to volunteerism: Volunteer personality fit and culture fit as predictors of affective outcomes

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-166

  Van Vianen, Annelies E M ^a   Nijstad, Bernard A ^a   Voskuijl, Olga F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 47249159912     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973530802209194     Document Type: Article

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