To be in good or bad humour: Construction of the state form of the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory-STCI

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 477-491

  Ruch, Willibald ^a   Köhler, Gabriele ^a   Van Thriel, Christoph ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0031124408     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(96)00231-0     Document Type: Article

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