Choosing a major in higher education: Profiles of students' decision-making process

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 229-239

  Germeijs, Veerle ^a   Luyckx, Koen ^a   Notelaers, Guy ^b   Goossens, Luc ^a   Verschueren, Karine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Decision making profiles; Educational choice; Higher education; Identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861482331     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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