Adaptation and validation of the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS) with adolescents;Adaptación y validación de la Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS) con adolescentes

Estudios de Psicologia

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-87

  Galindez, Edurne ^a   Casas, Ferran ^b  

^a MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Life Satisfaction; Subjective well being; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954332652     PISSN: 02109395     EISSN: 15793699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1174/021093910790744617     Document Type: Article

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