Developing a measure of contentment in an Arab Muslim country: Implications for cross-cultural research in social work

European Journal of Social Work

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 459-467

  Ridha, Hadi ^a   Al Naser, Fahad ^a   Figley, Charles R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contentment; Kuwait; Scale development

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649228718     PISSN: 13691457     EISSN: 14682664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691450701532123     Document Type: Article

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