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Born to be happy? The etiology of subjective well-being.

Behavior genetics - 1 Nov 2009

Bartels Meike, Boomsma Dorret I

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Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) can be assessed with distinct measures that have been hypothesized to represent different domains of SWB. The current study assessed SWB with four different measures in a genetically informative sample of adolescent twins and their siblings aged 13-28 years (N = 5,024 s...

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PMID: 19728071
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-009-9294-8
PMCID: PMC2780680

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