Subjective well-being versus self-actualization: Using the flow-simplex to promote a conceptual clarification of subjective quality of life

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 299-331

  Vittersø, Joar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; STUDENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 1242299050     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SOCI.0000003910.26194.ef     Document Type: Article

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