Children's subjective well-being measured using a composite index: What impacts spanish first-year secondary education students' subjective well-being?

Child Indicators Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 433-460

  Casas, Ferran ^a   Bello, Armando ^b   González, Mònica ^a   Aligué, Mireia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b Ecnis Sigma SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Composite index; Indicators; Life satisfaction; PWI; SLSS; Subjective well being; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882271678     PISSN: 1874897X     EISSN: 18748988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12187-013-9182-x     Document Type: Article

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