Life satisfaction set point: Stability and change

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 158-164

  Fujita, Frank ^a   Diener, Ed ^b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Gallup Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SATISFACTION; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCOME; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12344269936     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.88.1.158     Document Type: Review

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