Successful pursuit of personal goals and subjective well-being

Personal Project Pursuit: Goals, Action, and Human Flourishing

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 301-328

  Wiese, Bettina S ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315089928-11     Document Type: Chapter

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