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Age, Work Motivation, and the Potential for Age-Based Differential Validity for Personality Measures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Donald M. Truxillo
Donald M. Truxillo*
Affiliation:
Portland State University
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E-mail: truxillod@pdx.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 106 - 108
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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Department of Psychology, Portland State University.

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