Positive moods derived from leisure and their relationship to happiness and personality

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 523-535

  Hills, Peter ^a   Argyle, Michael ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0032164106     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00082-8     Document Type: Article

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