Adjustment amongst first year students in a Malaysian university

European Journal of Social Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 496-505

  Abdullah, Maria Chong ^a   Elias, Habibah ^a   Mahyuddin, Rahil ^a   Uli, Jegak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adjustment; First year students; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249084297     PISSN: 14502267     EISSN: 14502267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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