"When looking back on my past life I regret...": Retrospective regret in the second half of life

Death Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 625-644

  Timmer, Erika ^a   Westerhof, Gerben J ^b   Dittmann Kohli, Freya ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; FEMALE; GERMANY; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NETHERLANDS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GERMANY, EAST; GERMANY, WEST; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 23744493795     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180591004660     Document Type: Article

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