Investigation of the Structure of Vocational Interests of Chinese College Students

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 365-379

  Tang, Mei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese students; Cross cultural validity; Interest structure; Multidimensional scaling factor analysis (MDS); RIASEC; Strong Interest Inventory (SII)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347870298     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106907270100900404     Document Type: Article

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