Locus of control and academic success among ethnically diverse baccalaureate nursing students

Nursing Education Perspectives

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 290-294

  Wood, April Moy ^a   Saylor, Coleen ^a   Cohen, Jayne ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic success; Baccalaureate nursing students; Ethnic diversity; Locus of control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; STUDENTS, NURSING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349911355     PISSN: 15365026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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