Moving for their first job or staying put? Predictors of high school students' attitudes toward geographic mobility

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1719-1736

  Dette, Dorothea ^a   Dalbert, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 29144446840     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2005.tb02192.x     Document Type: Article

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