Avowed happiness in Confucian Asia: Ascertaining its distribution, patterns, and sources

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 405-427

  Shin, Doh Chull ^a   Inoguchi, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVING STANDARD; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67349211799     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-008-9354-0     Document Type: Article

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