The long arm of job insecurity: Its impact on career-specific parenting behaviors and youths' career self-efficacy

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 619-628

  Zhao, Xiuxi ^a   Lim, Vivien K G ^b   Teo, Thompson S H ^b,c  

^a Center for Creative Leadership   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Career self efficacy; Job insecurity; Multiple mediator analysis; Parenting behaviors; Youths

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862802265     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2012.01.018     Document Type: Article

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