Season's greetings: Adults' social contacts at the holiday season

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 192-205

  Fingerman, Karen L ^b   Griffiths, Patricia C ^a  

^a ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT GROUP;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HOLIDAYS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL MOBILITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0033007239     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.14.2.192     Document Type: Article

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