Personal wellbeing among ethnic Koreans in China's Northeast

Asian Ethnicity

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 75-96

  Nielsen, Ingrid ^a   Smyth, Russell ^a   Zhai, Qingguo ^b,c   Zhang, Juyong ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^c LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d DALIAN NATIONALITIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; ethnic Koreans; personal wellbeing index; predictors of personal wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863146160     PISSN: 14631369     EISSN: 14692953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2012.625702     Document Type: Article

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