Life satisfaction in Iran; A national representative study

Scientific Research and Essays

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1839-1844

  Mousavi, Mirtaher ^a   Shiani, Malihe ^b   Mohammadi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Sadjadi, Homeyra ^a   Tabatabaee, Farhad ^c   Assari, Shervin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND REHABILITATION SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c Medicine and Health Promotion Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Life satisfaction (LS); Single item scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958045183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19922248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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