Individual and Country-Level Effects of Social Trust on Happiness: The Asia Barometer Survey

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2574-2593

  Tokuda, Yasuharu ^a   Fujii, Seiji ^b   Inoguchi, Takashi ^b  

^a ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 77958538052     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00671.x     Document Type: Article

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