Beliefs around luck: Confirming the empirical conceptualization of beliefs around luck and the development of the Darke and Freedman beliefs around luck scale

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 655-660

  Maltby, John ^a   Day, Liza ^b   Gill, Poonam ^a   Colley, Ann ^a   Wood, Alex M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attribution style; Bad luck; Good luck; Hope; Irrational beliefs; Luck; Optimism; Personality; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249097704     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.07.010     Document Type: Article

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