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On the limits of agency for successful aging at work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2020

Rachel S. Rauvola*
Affiliation:
DePaul University
Cort W. Rudolph
Affiliation:
Saint Louis University
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]

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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

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Footnotes

Rachel S. Rauvola, Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA. Cort W. Rudolph, Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA.

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