The aging self: Stabilizing and protective processes

Developmental Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 52-80

  Brandtstädter, Jochen ^a   Greve, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

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EID: 21344477908     PISSN: 02732297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/drev.1994.1003     Document Type: Article

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