Social and developmental predictors of optimism from infancy to early adulthood

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-242

  Ek, Ellen ^a   Remes, Jouko ^a   Sovio, Ulla ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitude towards the future; Cohort studies; Longitudinal

Indexed keywords

QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 3042731851     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SOCI.0000033591.80716.07     Document Type: Article

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