Needs and Subjective Well-Being Around the World

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 354-365

  Tay, Louis ^a   Diener, Ed ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Gallup Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Income; Ordering of needs; Societal context; Subjective well being; Universal needs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EASTERN EUROPE; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SATISFACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ADULT; AFRICA; ASIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; EUROPE, EASTERN; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79960763420     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023779     Document Type: Article

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