Quality of life in healthy old age: Relationships with childhood IQ, minor psychological symptoms and optimism

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 632-636

  Bain, Gillian H ^b   Lemmon, Helen ^b   Teunisse, Saskia ^c   Starr, John M ^d   Fox, Helen C ^b   Deary, Ian J ^e   Whalley, Lawrence J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL CORNHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d Royal Victoria Hospital Edinburgh   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Depression; Longitudinal assessment; Normal individuals; Optimism; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCOTLAND; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0344825804     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0685-5     Document Type: Article

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