Do the core self-evaluations moderate the relationship between subjective well-being and physical and psychological health?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1441-1452

  Tsaousis, Ioannis ^a   Nikolaou, Ioannis ^b   Serdaris, Nikolaos ^c   Judge, Timothy A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c Chalkis Institute of Technology   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Core self evaluations; CSES; Health; Life satisfaction; Negative affect; PANAS; Physical health; Positive affect; Psychological health; Subjective well being; SWLS

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947374774     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.10.025     Document Type: Article

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