Affective Well-Being in Retirement: The Influence of Values, Money, and Health Across Three Years

Journal of Happiness Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-40

  Burr, Andrew ^a   Santo, Jonathan B ^a   Pushkar, Dolores ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finance; Health; Retirement; Subjective well being; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551534485     PISSN: 13894978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10902-009-9173-2     Document Type: Article

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