Ratings of 830 jobs on 45 characteristics: Factor and cluster analyses into age-enhanced, age-neutral and age-counteracted, and age-impaired categories

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 87, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 803-816

  Chi, Chia Fen ^a   Lin, Yu Tang ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OCCUPATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; TAIWAN; WORK CAPACITY; WORKLOAD;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MOTOR SKILLS; OCCUPATIONS; TAIWAN; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0032254342     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.3.803     Document Type: Article

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