Roles of personality, vocational interests, academic achievement and socio-cultural factors in educational aspirations of secondary school adolescents in southwestern Nigeria

Career Development International

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 630-647

  Salami, Samuel O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Education; Nigeria; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349094701     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430810911092     Document Type: Article

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