Psychometric Evaluation of the Tagalog and German Subjective Happiness Scales and a Cross-Cultural Comparison
Social Indicators ResearchPublished 23 September 2008
Viren Swami, Stefan Stieger, Martin Voracek, Stefan Dreßler, Laura Eisma, Adrian Furnham
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Subjective Happiness Scale, Well-being, Translation, Validation, Cross-cultural,
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