Well-being on campus: testing the effectiveness of an online strengths-based intervention for first year college students

British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 434-446

  Koydemir, Selda ^a   Sun Selışık, Z Eda ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

happiness; higher education; life satisfaction; quality of life; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946962452     PISSN: 03069885     EISSN: 14693534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03069885.2015.1110562     Document Type: Article

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