Education and career aspirations among Chinese high school students: Validation of the career aspiration scale

Asia-Pacific Education Researcher

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 394-401

  Cheng, Sandra ^a   Yuen, Mantak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Career aspiration scale; Career aspirations; Chinese; Education aspirations; Hong Kong; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864061999     PISSN: 01195646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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