Follow-up study on the effects of sense of coherence on well-being after two years in Japanese university undergraduate students

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1335-1347

  Togari, Taisuke ^a,b   Yamazaki, Yoshihiko ^a   Takayama, Tomoko Sasaki ^a   Yamaki, Chikako K ^b,c   Nakayama, Kazuhiro ^d  

^a GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

^d ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Follow up study; Gender differences; Salutogenesis; Sense of coherence; Undergraduates; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 39549114418     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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