Psychological wellbeing and the diathesis-stress hypothesis model: The role of psychological functioning and quality of relations in promoting subjective well-being in a life events study

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 321-326

  Burns, Richard Andrew ^a   Machin, Michael Anthony ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Life events; Personal relations; Psychological functioning; Psychological wellbeing; Subjective wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870253411     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.09.017     Document Type: Article

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