Everyday functioning and successful aging: The impact of resources

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 433-443

  Baltes, Margret M ^a   Lang, Frieder R ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BERLIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0030887022     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.12.3.433     Document Type: Article

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