Perceived control of life regrets: Good for young and bad for old adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 340-350

  Wrosch, Carsten ^a   Heckhausen, Jutta ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; CONTROL; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF CONCEPT; THINKING; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036015014     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.17.2.340     Document Type: Article

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