Contentment and Affect in the Estimation of Happiness

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 415-431

  Rojas, Mariano ^a   Veenhoven, Ruut ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POPULAR AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affect; Components of happiness; Contentment; Cross national; Life evaluation; Life satisfaction; Subjective wellbeing

Indexed keywords

LIVING STANDARD; QUALITY OF LIFE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84872489658     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9952-0     Document Type: Article

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