Social skills, life satisfaction, and loneliness in Turkish university students

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 203-214

  Ozben, Suheda ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gender; Life satisfaction; Loneliness; Social skills; Turkey; University students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878057425     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2013.41.2.203     Document Type: Article

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