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Correction: Mission valence of civil servants: development and validation of a three-dimensional scale
Xi Liu1, Mengchu Zhao2, Weibo Zheng1
1College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Frontiers in Psychology
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1734019.].
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