Pathways to happiness: From personality to social networks and perceived support

Social Networks

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 382-393

  Zhu, Xiumei ^a   Woo, Sang Eun ^b   Porter, Caitlin ^b   Brzezinski, Michael ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Individual difference; Personality; Social network; Social support; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880600487     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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