Vocational interest profiles: Profile replicability and relations with the STEM major choice and the Big-Five

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 106, Issue , 2018, Pages 84-100

  Perera, Harsha N ^a   McIlveen, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic and career choices; Interest profiles; Latent profile analysis; Profile invariance; Profile similarity; STEM career choices; Vocational interests

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042365498     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2017.11.012     Document Type: Article

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