Change in subjective age among older people over an eight-year follow-up: 'Getting older and feeling younger?'

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 381-393

  Uotinen, Virpi ^a   Rantanen, Taina ^a   Suutama, Timo ^a   Ruoppila, Isto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

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Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PERCEPTION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 33748878026     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730600875759     Document Type: Article

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