Quantifying and interpreting group differences in interest profiles

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 115-132

  Armstrong, Patrick Ian ^a   Fouad, Nadya A ^b   Rounds, James ^c   Hubert, Lawrence ^c  

^a E005A Lagomarcino Hall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Human sex differences; Interest assessment; Multidimensional scaling; Profile similarity; Racial ethnic group differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951647813     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072709354367     Document Type: Article

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