Balance in life and declining marginal utility of diverse resources

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 277-291

  Diener, Ed ^a   Ng, Weiting ^b   Tov, Will ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Singapore Institute of Management   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Balance; Declining marginal utility; Happiness; Life satisfaction; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349122759     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-009-9062-1     Document Type: Article

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