Life Satisfaction of Adolescents in Hunan, China: Reliability and Validity of Chinese Brief Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS)

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 515-522

  Ye, Man ^a,b   Li, Lezhi ^a   Li, Yingxia ^a   Shen, Ruoling ^a   Wen, Shali ^a   Zhang, Jingping ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescent psychology; Life satisfaction; Reliability; Self esteem; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INDICATOR; STUDENT; SURVEY METHOD;

CHINA; HUNAN;

EID: 84927643842     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-013-0438-0     Document Type: Article

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