Social support, health, and well-being among the elderly: What is the role of negative affectivity?

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-17

  Kahn, Jeffrey H ^a   Hessling, Robert M ^b   Russell, Daniel W ^c  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Elderly adults; Life satisfaction; Loneliness; Negative affectivity; Physical health; Social support

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037655043     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00135-6     Document Type: Article

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