Compensatory Help-Seeking in Young and Older Adults: Does Seeking Help, Help?

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 437-456

  Alea, Nicole ^a   Cunningham, Walter R ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0642279157     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730303701     Document Type: Article

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