Socioemotional selectivity in cancer patients

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 419-423

  Pinquart, Martin ^a   Silbereisen, Rainer K ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Social development; Socioemotional selectivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33747080493     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.2.419     Document Type: Article

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