Job search strategies, attitudes to school and attributions about unemployment

Journal of Adolescence

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 355-369

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Rawles, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAREER; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMPLOYMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIANCE;

EID: 0030219925     PISSN: 01401971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jado.1996.0034     Document Type: Article

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