Gratitude in Intermediate Affective Terrain: Links of Grateful Moods to Individual Differences and Daily Emotional Experience

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 295-309

  McCullough, Michael E ^a,d   Tsang, Jo Ann ^b   Emmons, Robert A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1342325061     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.2.295     Document Type: Article

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