Attributional Retraining Increases Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy

Career Development Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 378-386

  Luzzo, Darrell Anthony ^a   Funk, Dylan P ^b   Strang, Jason ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^b ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0004214041     PISSN: 08894019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1996.tb00453.x     Document Type: Article

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