The adjustment of expatriate teenagers

Personnel Review

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-43

  Weeks, Kelly P ^a   Weeks, Matthew ^a   Willis Muller, Katherine ^b  

^a CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

^b St Elizabeth Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Adolescents; Expatriates

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249112955     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481011007841     Document Type: Article

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