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International Journal of Psychology & Behavior Analysis Volume 3 (2017), Article ID 3:IJPBA-122, 6 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2017/122
Original Article
How gender matters for happiness: A serial study in of college students in China

Xiao Dong Yue*, Feng Jiang, Hiranandani Neelam Arjan, Huang Jia and Li Su-Xia

Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, 81 Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR China
Dr. Xiao Dong Yue, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, 81 Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR China; E-mail: xiaodong.yue@cityu.edu.hk
16 November 2016; 06 March 2017; 08 March 2017
Yue XD, Jiang F, Arjan HN, Jia H, Su-Xia L (2017) How gender matters for happiness: A serial study in of college students in China. Int J Psychol Behav Anal 3: 122. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2017/122
This research was funded by a grant from the City University of Hong Kong (Grant No. 7004315).
© 2017 Yue et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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