The mediating roles of career self-efficacy and career decidedness in the relationship between contextual support and persistence

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 186-195

  Restubog, Simon Lloyd D ^a   Florentino, Afryll R ^b   Garcia, Patrick Raymund James M ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Career counseling; Career decidedness; Career self efficacy; Parental support; Persistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956417495     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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