Predictors of subjective age before and after cataract surgery: Conscientiousness makes a difference

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 676-688

  Knoll, Nina ^a   Rieckmann, Nina ^b   Scholz, Urte ^c   Schwarzer, Ralf ^c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONSCIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY;

EID: 10044229214     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.19.4.676     Document Type: Article

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