Curb your neuroticism - Mindfulness mediates the link between neuroticism and subjective well-being

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 68-75

  Wenzel, Mario ^a   von Versen, Christina ^a   Hirschmüller, Sarah ^a   Kubiak, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mindfulness; Moderated mediation; Neuroticism; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924108343     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.02.020     Document Type: Article

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