Individual development and community empowerment: Suggestions from studies on optimal experience

Well-Being: Individual, Community and Social Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 41-56

  Fave, Antonella Delle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230287624     Document Type: Chapter

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