Depression in later life: Cross-sequential patterns and possible determinants

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 80-90

  Rothermund, Klaus ^a   Brandtstädter, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0037335020     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.1.80     Document Type: Article

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