Personality, career decision self-efficacy and commitment to the career choices process among Chinese graduate students

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-52

  Jin, Leili ^a   Watkins, David ^a   Yuen, Mantak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Career decision self efficacy; China; Commitment to career choices process; Graduate students; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549112202     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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