Subjective Well-Being among Holocaust Survivors: An Examination of Overlooked Differentiations

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 141-155

  Shmotkin, Dov ^a   Lomranz, Jacob ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PRISON; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0032110019     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.1.141     Document Type: Article

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