Stability of vocational interests among high school students

Adolescence, Fall, 1998 by Ronald L. Mullis, Ann K. Mullis, Deborah Gerwels

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Ann K. Mullis, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Florida State University.

Deborah Gerwels, M.S., Florida State University.