Happiness, faith, friends, and fortune - Empirical evidence from the 1998 US survey data

Journal of Happiness Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 577-587

  Moghaddam, Masoud ^a  

^a ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Individual happiness; Materialism; Religiosity; Socioeconomics; The GSS data; US

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949158996     PISSN: 13894978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10902-008-9090-9     Document Type: Review

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