The Reliability and Validity of the Career Decision Difficulties Questionnaire

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 393-413

  Lancaster, Brian P ^a,b   Rudolph, Charles E ^a   Perkins, T Scott ^a   Patten, Thomas G ^a  

^a ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Assessment; Career; Decision making; Indecisiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033422546     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106907279900700405     Document Type: Article

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