Personality, meta-mood experience, life satisfaction, and anxiety in Australian versus Singaporean students

Current Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-120

  Wong, Shyh Shin ^a   Oei, Tian P S ^b   Ang, Rebecca P ^a   Lee, Boon Ooi ^a   Ng, Aik Kwang ^c   Leng, Veronica ^d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Life satisfaction; Meta mood experience; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948956242     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-007-9005-7     Document Type: Review

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