The Polish adaptation of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF)

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 104-109

  Karaś, Dominika ^a   Cieciuch, Jan ^b,c   Keyes, Corey L M ^d  

^a CARDINAL STEFAN WYSZY SKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional well being; Mental health continuum; Psychological wellbeing; Social well being; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902081857     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.05.011     Document Type: Article

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