So Close, Yet so Far: Predictors of Attrition in College Seniors

Journal of College Student Development

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 343-354

  Mohr, Jonathan J ^a   Eiche, Keith D ^a   Sedlacek, William E ^a  

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