Stability and change of well being: An experimentally enhanced latent state-trait-error analysis

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-31

  Schimmack, Ulrich ^a   Krause, Peter ^b   Wagner, Gert G ^b,c   Schupp, Jürgen ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Change; Disposition; Domain satisfaction; Life satisfaction; Set point; Stability; State; Trait; Well being

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PANEL DATA; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

GERMANY;

EID: 73449087349     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-009-9443-8     Document Type: Article

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