Coping with Deficits and Losses in Later Life: From Compensatory Action to Accommodation

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 896-905

  Rothermund, Klaus ^a   Brandtstädter, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0346750687     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.18.4.896     Document Type: Article

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