Individual differences in trajectory of intellectual development over 45 years of adulthood

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 663-675

  Arbuckle, Tannis Y ^a   Maag, Urs ^b   Pushkar, Dolores ^a   Chaikelson, June S ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGED; AGING; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; INTROVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 0032415893     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.13.4.663     Document Type: Article

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