Feeling right is feeling good: psychological well-being and emotional fit with culture in autonomy- versus relatedness-promoting situations

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  De Leersnyder, Jozefien ^a   Kim, Heejung ^b   Mesquita, Batja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomy; cultural fit; culture; Emotion; emotional fit; psychological well being; relatedness; well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944229149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00630     Document Type: Article

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