Self-reported emotional intelligence and life satisfaction: Testing incremental predictive validity hypotheses via structural equation modeling (SEM) in a small sample

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1569-1577

  Gignac, Gilles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 33646156178     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.01.001     Document Type: Article

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