The Contribution of Personal Resources to Physical and Mental Health: Looking into Age and Gender Effects

Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-25

  Shmotkin, Dov ^b   Lomranz, Jacob ^b   Eyal, Nitza ^b   Zemach, Mina ^a  

^a Dachaf Pub Opinion Res Institute   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0033073758     PISSN: 87567547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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