Value Pathways to Well-Being: Healthy Values, Valued Goal Attainment, and Environmental Congruence

Positive Psychology in Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 68-85

  Sagiv, Lilach ^a   Roccas, Sonia ^b   Hazan, Osnat ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Environmental congruence; Healthy values; Value pathways; Valued goal attainment; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954200858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470939338.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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