Measuring mental well-being: Italian validation of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS);Una misura del benessere mentale: Validazione italiana della Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS)

Giornale Italiano di Psicologia

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 485-505

  Gremigni, Paola ^a   Stewart Brown, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hedonic and eudaimonic well being; Mental health; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857154218     PISSN: 03905349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1421/35174     Document Type: Article

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