Examining the pathways between gratitude and self-rated physical health across adulthood

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 92-96

  Hill, Patrick L ^a   Allemand, Mathias ^b   Roberts, Brent W ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conditional indirect effect models; Gratitude; Health behaviors; Physical health

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867730995     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.08.011     Document Type: Article

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