Achieving Sustainable New Happiness: Prospects, Practices, and Prescriptions

Positive Psychology in Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 127-145

  Sheldon, Kennon M ^a   Lyubomirsky, Sonja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual model; Determinants of happiness; Happiness; Life circumstances; Set point

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954229122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470939338.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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