Exploring Attitudes and Predicting Intentions: Profiling Student Debtors Using an Extended Theory of Planned Behavior

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 119-149

  Chudry, Farooq ^a   Foxall, Gordon ^b   Pallister, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 78651479416     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00705.x     Document Type: Article

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