The Self-Efficacy-Interest Relationship and RIASEC Type: Which Is Figure and Which Is Ground? Comment on Armstrong and Vogel (2009)

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 219-225

  Lent, Robert W ^a   Sheu, Hung Bin ^b   Brown, Steven D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Holland type; interest; self efficacy; social cognitive career theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS; VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE;

ATTITUDE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAREER CHOICE; CULTURE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF EFFICACY; VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE;

EID: 77950558534     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019039     Document Type: Article

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