Perception of happiness among elderly persons in metropolitan USA

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 87, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 787-793

  Mookherjee, Harsha N ^a  

^a TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032252029     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.3.787     Document Type: Article

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