Emotional ratings of anchor periods in life and their relation to subjective well-being among Holocaust survivors

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 495-506

  Cohen, Keren ^a   Shmotkin, Dov ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anchor periods; Emotionality; Holocaust survivors; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147128166     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.12.018     Document Type: Article

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