Relationships among higher-order strengths factors, subjective well-being, and general self-efficacy - The case of Israeli adolescents

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 322-327

  Weber, Marco ^a   Ruch, Willibald ^a   Littman Ovadia, Hadassah ^b   Lavy, Shiri ^b   Gai, Or ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Character strengths; General self efficacy; Higher order strengths factor; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878143552     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.03.006     Document Type: Article

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