The agentic self: On the nature and origins of personal agency across the life span

Handbook of Personality Development

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 61-79

  Little, Todd D ^a   Snyder, C R ^a   Wehmeyer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315805610-11     Document Type: Chapter

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