High school students' career decision-making process: Development and validation of the study choice task inventory

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 449-471

  Germeijs, Veerle ^a   Verschueren, Karine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Decision making process; Decisional task; High school students; Higher education; Scale development; Study choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748981707     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072706286510     Document Type: Article

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