Self-serving appraisal as a cognitive coping strategy to deal with age-related limitations: An empirical study with elderly adults in a real-life stressful situation

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-203

  De Raedt, Rudi ^a   Ponjaert Kristoffersen, I ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Free University Brussels ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SAMPLE SIZE; SENESCENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BELGIUM; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF EFFICACY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644817556     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607860500311904     Document Type: Article

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