Educational achievement

Well-Being: Positive Development Across the Life Course

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 341-354

  Plank, Stephen B ^a   MacIver, Douglas J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410607171     Document Type: Chapter

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