Personality, peer relations, and self-confidence as predictors of happiness and loneliness

Journal of Adolescence

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 327-339

  Cheng, Helen ^b   Furnham, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONELINESS; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN RELATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONELINESS; MALE; PERSONALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0036597015     PISSN: 01401971     EISSN: 10959254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jado.2002.0475     Document Type: Article

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