Still Participating after All These Years: A Study of Life Task Participation in Later Life

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1235-1249

  Harlow, Robert E ^a   Cantor, Nancy ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETIREMENT; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

AGED; EMPLOYMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETIREMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0030346618     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.6.1235     Document Type: Article

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