Unequally Distributed Psychological Assets: Are There Social Disparities in Optimism, Life Satisfaction, and Positive Affect?

• Julia K. Boehm ,

  * E-mail: jboehm@chapman.edu

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Chapman University, Orange, California, United States of America

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• Ying Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• David R. Williams,

  Affiliations Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of African and African American Studies and Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Carol Ryff,

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Institute on Aging, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Laura D. Kubzansky

  Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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