Dimensions of well-being and their measurement: The Spf-Il scale

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 313-353

  Nieboer, Anna ^a   Lindenberg, Siegwart ^b   Boomsma, Anne ^b   Van Bruggen, Alinda C ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Measurement instrument; Structural equation modeling; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EID: 23944456676     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-004-0988-2     Document Type: Article

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