Predicting two components of career maturity in school based adolescents

Journal of Career Development

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 277-290

  Creed, Peter A ^a   Patton, Wendy ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Career decidedness; Career decision making self efficacy; Career maturity; Work experience; Work salience

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242427565     PISSN: 08948453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022943613644     Document Type: Article

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