Psychometric properties of the reasons for living inventory in Italian university students

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-56

  Innamorati, Marco ^a,b   Pompili, Maurizio ^a   Ferrari, Vincenzo ^a   Cavedon, Gianfranco ^a   Soccorsi, Roberto ^a   Aiello, Sofia ^a   Mancinelli, Iginia ^a   Lelli, Monica ^a   Tatarelli, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

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