Career Adapt-Abilities Scale in a French-speaking Swiss sample: Psychometric properties and relationships to personality and work engagement

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 734-743

  Rossier, Jérôme ^a   Zecca, Gregory ^a   Stauffer, Sarah D ^a   Maggiori, Christian ^a   Dauwalder, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Career adapt abilities; Personality; Work engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860684591     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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