The structure of attitudes to student debt

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 322-330

  Haultain, Steve ^a,b   Kemp, Simon ^a   Chernyshenko, Oleksandr S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b TRANSPOWER NEW ZEALAND LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Attitude; Credit and debt; Student debt

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952745069     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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