Level of self-concepts in educated unemployed young men in India: An empirical analysis

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 629-643

  Singh, Lal Bahadur ^a,c   Singh, Arun Kumar ^a   Rani, Asha ^b  

^a T M BHAGALPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b LEO   (India)

^c Ganga Apartment   (India)

Author keywords

The unemployed and their self concepts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030295679     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(96)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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