Challenges and difficulties in career decision making: Their causes, and their effects on the process and the decision

2019/10/20 by Viktória Kulcsár, Anca Dobrean, Itamar Gati · 176 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Adaptability #Applied psychology #Career Development and Diversity #Career counseling #Career development #Career portfolio #Clinical psychology #Cognitive Information Processing #Computer science #Coping (psychology) #Decision-making #Dysfunctional family #Education, Achievement, and Giftedness #Feeling #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Management #Marketing #Process (computing) #Psychology #Social psychology

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2019.103346

published in Journal of Vocational Behavior 116, 103346 (Elsevier BV)

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• Toward a Unifying Social Cognitive Theory of Career and Academic Interest, Choice, and Performance
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