Loneliness and Subjective Happiness as Mediators of the Effects of Core Self-evaluations on Life Satisfaction Among Chinese College Students

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 757-766

  Yan, Xiaofei ^a   Su, Jingkuan ^b   Zhu, Xia ^a   He, Dan ^c  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Core self evaluations; Life satisfaction; Loneliness; Subjective happiness

Indexed keywords

HIGHER EDUCATION; MODEL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT;

EID: 84884980041     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0172-z     Document Type: Article

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