Born to be happy? the etiology of Subjective well-being

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 605-615

  Bartels, Meike ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Happiness; Heritability; Multivariate modeling; Subjective wellbeing; Twin sibling design

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; GENETIC MODEL; HAPPINESS; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; TWINS; VARIANCE; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERAMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71549167581     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-009-9294-8     Document Type: Article

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