Some Individual Differences Influencing the Propensity to Happiness: Insights from Behavioral Economics

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 897-908

  He, Fei ^a   Guan, Hao ^b   Kong, Yi ^c   Cao, Rong ^a   Peng, Jiaxi ^d  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Editing rules; Regulatory focus theory; Self framing; Subjective happiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889058720     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0519-0     Document Type: Article

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