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Tammy D Allen1, Lillian T Eby, Elizabeth Lentz

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA. tallen@shell.cas.usf.edu

The Journal of Applied Psychology
|June 2, 2006
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