Cultural validity of Holland's theory and the strong interest inventory for five racial/ethnic groups

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 423-439

  Fouad, Nadya A ^a   Mohler, Carolyn J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural validity; Holland's theory; Interests; Race and interests

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444249653     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072704267736     Document Type: Review

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