Cognitive Correlates of Subjective Well-Being: The Processing of Valenced Life Events by Happy and Unhappy Persons

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 240-256

  Seidlitz, Larry ^b   Wyer Jr , Robert S ^a   Diener, Ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0000919559     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jrpe.1997.2184     Document Type: Article

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