Testing for the structure of the career decision self-efficacy scale-short form among Chinese college students

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 98-113

  Hampton, Nan Zhang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b Graduate Coll Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Career Decision Self Efficacy Scale Short Form; Chinese; Confirmatory factor analysis; Construct validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645743006     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072704270298     Document Type: Article

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