Psychosocial correlates of subjective health in sexagenarians, octogenarians, and centenarians

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-171

  Quinn, Mary Ellen ^d   Johnson, Mary Ann ^a   Poon, Leonard W ^a   Martin, Peter ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PERSONALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033085446     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/016128499248727     Document Type: Article

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