A longitudinal examination of the social-cognitive model applied to high school girls' choices of nontraditional college majors and aspirations

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 448-457

  Nauta, Margaret M ^a   Epperson, Douglas L ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAREER; COGNITION; COLLEGE; DECISION MAKING; ENGINEERING; FEMALE; GIRL; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0242636175     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.50.4.448     Document Type: Article

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