Examining sources of self-informant agreement in life-satisfaction judgments

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 207-212

  Schneider, Leann ^a   Schimmack, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Life satisfaction; Multi method; Person perception; Self informant; Top down; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950058428     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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