Predicting career aspirations and university majors from academic ability and self-concept: A longitudinal application of the internal-external frame of reference model

Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment: A Life Course Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 224-246

  Parker, Philip ^a   Nagy, Gabriel ^b   Trautwein, Ulrich ^c   LÜdtke, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 84938210135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139128933.015     Document Type: Chapter

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