Personality Reconsidered: A New Agenda for Aging Research

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Hooker, Karen ^a   McAdams, Dan P ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYSIS; AUTOREGULATION; BEHAVIOR; CHARACTER; DYNAMICS; EMOTION; EXTRAVERSION; FATIGUE; GERONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUNGER; LIFESPAN; MEMORY; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL INSTABILITY; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MOOD; NEUROSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SKILL; WELLBEING;

EID: 0345659245     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/58.6.P296     Document Type: Review

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