The Impacts of Attributional Styles and Dispositional Optimism on Subject Well-Being: A Structural Equation Modelling Analysis

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 757-769

  Zhang, Jiaxi ^a   Miao, Danmin ^a   Sun, Yunfeng ^b   Xiao, Runxuan ^a   Ren, Lei ^a   Xiao, Wei ^a   Peng, Jiaxi ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attributional styles; Dispositional optimism; Mediating effect; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888989553     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0520-7     Document Type: Article

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