Causal direction in a model of life satisfaction: The top-down/bottom-up controversy

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 161-180

  Scherpenzeel, Anette ^a   Saris, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000388169     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00300457     Document Type: Article

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