What makes you happy?: A comparison of self-reported criteria of happiness between two cultures

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 351-362

  Lee, Dong Yul ^a   Park, Sung Hee ^b   Uhlemann, Max R ^c   Patsula, Philip ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b National College of Education   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

CANADA; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 0034028784     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004647517069     Document Type: Article

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