The Associations Between Parental Socio-Economic Conditions, Childhood Intelligence, Adult Personality Traits, Social Status and Mental Well-Being

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 653-664

  Cheng, Helen ^a   Furnham, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Happiness; Intelligence; Longitudinal; Mental well being; Occupation; Personality traits; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; OCCUPATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INDICATOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; STATISTICAL DATA;

EID: 84899909230     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0364-1     Document Type: Article

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