Daily life activities as mediators of the relationship between personality variables and subjective well-being among older adults

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 124-129

  Herero, Vanessa González ^a   Extremera, Natalio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Daily life activities; Old age; Optimism; Self esteem; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952553438     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.03.019     Document Type: Article

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