Coping strategies and cognitive functioning in elderly people from a rural community in Italy

Psychological Reports

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 159-168

  Poderico, Carla ^a   Ruggiero, Gennaro ^a   Iachini, Tina ^a   Iavarone, Alessandro ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33646924333     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.98.1.159-168     Document Type: Article

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