Is Easy Access Related to Better Life? Walkability and Overlapping of Personal and Communal Identity as Predictors of Quality of Life

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 505-516

  Jaśkiewicz, Michał ^a   Besta, Tomasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

City identification; Identity fusion; Mediations; Quality of life; Walkability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905251668     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-013-9246-6     Document Type: Article

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