Higher Income Is Associated With Less Daily Sadness but not More Daily Happiness

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 483-489

  Kushlev, Kostadin ^a   Dunn, Elizabeth W ^a   Lucas, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ATUS; happiness; income; sadness; subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930453764     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614568161     Document Type: Article

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