Agency, values, and well-being: A human development model

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-63

  Welzel, Christian ^a   Inglehart, Ronald ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency feelings; Cultural evolution; Emancipative values; Human development; Knowledge economies; Life satisfaction; Well being

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951979361     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-009-9557-z     Document Type: Article

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