Personality and incident disability in older persons

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 428-433

  Krueger, Kristin R ^a,b   Wilson, Robert S ^a,b   Shah, Raj C ^a,b   Tang, Yuxiao ^b,c   Bennett, David A ^a,b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conscientiousness; Disability; Elderly; Extraversion; Longitudinal studies; Neuroticism; Personality

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLERGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GENDER; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33745362930     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afl028     Document Type: Article

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