Social connectedness, extraversion, and subjective well-being: Testing a mediation model

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 414-419

  Lee, Richard M ^a   Dean, Brooke L ^a   Jung, Kyoung Rae ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Extraversion; Mediation; Social connectedness; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049129853     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.05.017     Document Type: Article

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