Character strengths and virtues: Their role in well-being

Applied Positive Psychology: Improving Everyday Life, Health, Schools, Work, and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 49-62

  Peterson, Christopher ^a   Park, Nansook ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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