Controlling your environment and yourself: Implications for career success

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 148-159

  Converse, Patrick D ^a   Pathak, Jaya ^a   DePaul Haddock, Anne Marie ^a   Gotlib, Tomer ^a   Merbedone, Matthew ^a  

^a FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career success; Educational attainment; Occupational characteristics; Proactive personality; Self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 83255194095     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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