Early adolescents' personality and life satisfaction: A closer look at global vs. domain-specific satisfaction

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 31-36

  Weber, Marco ^a   Huebner, E Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; Domain specific satisfaction; Early adolescence; Global life satisfaction; MSLSS; Personality traits; SLSS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926211458     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.03.042     Document Type: Article

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