Your personality on a good day: How trait and state personality predict daily well-being

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 69, Issue , 2017, Pages 250-263

  Howell, Ryan T ^a   Ksendzova, Masha ^b   Nestingen, Eric ^a   Yerahian, Claudio ^a   Iyer, Ravi ^c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CivilPoliticsOrg   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Five; Happiness; Personality; Well being; Within person variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007530453     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2016.08.001     Document Type: Article

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