Research on calling: What have we learned and where are we going?

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 428-436

  Duffy, Ryan D ^a   Dik, Bryan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Calling; Review; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887178624     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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