Assessing Career Decision-Making Difficulties: A Cross-Cultural Study

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 353-364

  Mau, Wei Cheng ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career choice; Career counseling; College student; Cross cultural; Decision making; Test validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035621289     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106907270100900403     Document Type: Article

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