Associations among achievement measures and their collective prediction of work involvement

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 360-364

  Mills, Maura J ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accomplishment; Achievement; Intrinsic motivation; Work involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649633393     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.10.020     Document Type: Article

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