Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 246-264

  Joshanloo, Mohsen ^a   Lepshokova, Zarina Kh ^b   Panyusheva, Tatiana ^b   Natalia, Amerkhanova ^b   Poon, Wai Ching ^c   Yeung, Victoria Wai lan ^d   Sundaram, Suresh ^e   Achoui, Mustapha ^f   Asano, Ryosuke ^g   Igarashi, Tasuku ^g   Tsukamoto, Saori ^g   Rizwan, Muhammad ^h   Khilji, Imran Ahmed ^h   Ferreira, Maria Cristina ⁱ   Pang, Joyce S ^j   Ho, Lok Sang ^d   Han, Gyuseog ^k   Bae, Jaechang ^k   Jiang, Ding Yu ^l  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f ARAB OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^g NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

ⁱ SALGADO DE OLIVEIRA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^j NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^k Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^l NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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Author keywords

cross cultural; emotion; fear of happiness; happiness; religion; subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891508817     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022113505357     Document Type: Article

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