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What Do College Students Have To Lose? Exploring the Outcomes of Differences in Person-Environment Fits
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 75, Number 5, September/October 2004
- pp. 528-555
- 10.1353/jhe.2004.0029
- Article
- Additional Information
Although students entering academic majors incongruent with their dominant personality type remain the same or decline in their initially prominent characteristics, they gain in the abilities and interests promoted by their chosen major. They do not differ from their congruent counterparts in either their academic and social involvements and satisfactions or various personal costs and discontents.