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Chapter 22 - Subjective Well-Being across Cultures: Some Universals and Many More Differences

from Health and Well-Being

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2018

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Chu Kim-Prieto  and
Jaclyn Kukoff
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Kenneth D. Keith
Kenneth D. Keith
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University of San Diego
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Culture across the Curriculum
A Psychology Teacher's Handbook
 , pp. 464 - 478
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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