Social self-efficacy and short-term variability in social relationships: The MacArthur successful aging studies

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 657-666

  Lang, Frieder R ^a   Featherman, David L ^b   Nesselroade, John R ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VOLUNTEER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031451751     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.12.4.657     Document Type: Article

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