Living in accordance with one’s implicit motives: Cross-cultural evidence for beneficial effects of motive-goal congruence and motive satisfaction

Social Indicators Research Series

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 51-66

  Hofer, Jan ^a   Busch, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cultural Group; Global Life Satisfaction; Goal Pursuit; Life Satisfaction; Motivational Domain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891822519     PISSN: 13876570     EISSN: 22150099     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4963-4_4     Document Type: Chapter

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