Positive and negative affect more concurrent among blacks than whites

Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Lankarani, Maryam Moghani ^a,b   Assari, Shervin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Medicine and Health Promotion Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

African Americans; Blacks; Ethnic groups; Negative affect; Positive affect; Whites

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040649533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2076328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/bs7030048     Document Type: Article

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