The positive event scale: Measuring uplift frequency and intensity in an adult sample

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-83

  Maybery, D J ^a   Jones Ellis, Jenny ^b   Neale, Jason ^b   Arentz, Alexandra ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHODOLOGY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 33745437888     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-005-4096-8     Document Type: Article

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