Dimensions of career indecision among Puerto Rican college students

Journal of College Student Development

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-94

  Corkin, Danya ^a,b   Arbona, Consuelo ^a   Coleman, Nicole ^a   Ramirez, Romilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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