The forgiving personality: Describing a life well lived?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1009-1020

  Lawler Row, Kathleen A ^a   Piferi, Rachel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Forgiveness; Psychological well being; Stress; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746922398     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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