A review of the tripartite structure of subjective well-being: Implications for conceptualization, operationalization, analysis, and synthesis

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 290-314

  Busseri, Michael A ^a   Sadava, Stan W ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

individual differences; structure; well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959696244     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868310391271     Document Type: Review

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