Children's subjective well-being: International comparative perspectives

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 548-556

  Bradshaw, Jonathan ^a   Keung, Antonia ^a   Rees, Gwyther ^b   Goswami, Haridhan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child well being; Personal well being; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952183883     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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