How do efforts to enhance career preparation affect peer groups?

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 677-690

  Kiuru, Noona ^a   Koivisto, Petri ^a,b   Mutanen, Pertti ^b   Vuori, Jukka ^b   Nurmi, Jari Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

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EID: 80051580695     PISSN: 10508392     EISSN: 15327795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2010.00701.x     Document Type: Article

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