Dispositional mindfulness and life satisfaction: The role of core self-evaluations

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 165-169

  Kong, Feng ^a   Wang, Xu ^a   Zhao, Jingjing ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adults; Core self evaluations; Life satisfaction; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885483522     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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