Levels of mental health continuum and personality traits

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 211-224

  Joshanloo, Mohsen ^a   Nosratabadi, Masoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Big Five; Mental health continuum; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MENTAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

EID: 55649117488     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-008-9253-4     Document Type: Article

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