The subjective well-being of adolescents from two different cultures: Applying three versions of the PWI in Algeria and Spain

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 637-651

  Casas, Ferran ^a   Tiliouine, Habib ^b   Figuer, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Confirmatory factor analysis; Crosscultural; Life satisfaction; Personal well being; PWI; Structural equation modeling; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; MULTICULTURALISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INDICATOR; YOUNG POPULATION;

ALGERIA; CATALONIA; ORAN [ALGERIA]; SPAIN;

EID: 84896317628     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0229-z     Document Type: Article

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