Outcome expectations: Looking to the past and potential future

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 130-142

  Fouad, Nadya A ^a,b   Guillen, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Department of Educational Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Outcome expectations; Social cognitive career theory; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645738860     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072705281370     Document Type: Article

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