Flourishing in the now: Initial validation of a present-eudaimonic time perspective scale

Time and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 203-226

  Vowinckel, Jonte C ^a   Westerhof, Gerben J ^a   Bohlmeijer, Ernst T ^a   Webster, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LANGARA COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

balanced time perspective; flow; mindfulness; present time perspective; scale development; Time perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021089120     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: 14617463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X15577277     Document Type: Article

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