Vocational Identity Achievement as a Mediator of Presence of Calling and Life Satisfaction

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 309-321

  Hirschi, Andreas ^a,b   Herrmann, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

calling; career development; core self evaluations; vocational identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863753147     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069072711436158     Document Type: Review

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