Social-cognitive factors affecting clients' career and life satisfaction after counseling

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-15

  Verbruggen, Marijke ^a,b   Sels, Luc ^b  

^a Lessius University College   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Career counseling; Career satisfaction; Goal progress; Life satisfaction; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049109357     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072709340516     Document Type: Article

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