Aging holocaust survivors' well-being and adjustment: Associations with ambivalence over emotional expression

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 710-713

  Ben Zur, Hasida ^a   Zimmerman, Meirav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ambivalence over emotional expression; Holocaust; Negative affect

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGED; AGING; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PRISON; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WAR; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 31044451083     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.4.710     Document Type: Article

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