Contributions of personality and interests to explaining the educational aspirations of college students

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 347-365

  Gasser, Courtney E ^a,b   Larson, Lisa M ^a   Borgen, Fred H ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational aspirations; Interests; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 7444259130     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072704266644     Document Type: Review

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