School Satisfaction Among Adolescents: Testing Different Indicators for its Measurement and its Relationship with Overall Life Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being in Romania and Spain

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 665-681

  Casas, Ferran ^a   Bălţătescu, Sergiu ^b   Bertran, Irma ^a   González, Mònica ^a   Hatos, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ORADEA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Life satisfaction; Romania; School satisfaction; Spain; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INDICATOR; TESTING METHOD; YOUNG POPULATION;

ROMANIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84875483409     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0025-9     Document Type: Article

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