Social relations and depressive symptomatology: Self-efficacy as a mediator

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-239

  Fiori, K L ^a   McIlvane, J M ^b   Brown, E E ^c   Antonucci, T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c University of Tennesee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33745714283     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607860500310690     Document Type: Article

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