Emotional and personality-related career decision-making difficulties: A 3-year follow-up

Counseling Psychologist

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-27

  Gati, Itamar ^a   Asulin Peretz, Lisa ^a   Fisher, Ahinoam ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

career decision making; EPCD; gender differences; indecision; indecisiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455206132     PISSN: 00110000     EISSN: 15523861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011000011398726     Document Type: Article

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