Marital discord and well-being in older adults: Is the association confounded by personality?

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 626-631

  Whisman, Mark A ^a   Uebelacker, Lisa A ^b   Tolejko, Natalie ^a   Chatav, Yael ^a   McKelvie, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Marital satisfaction; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MARRIAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSION; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33749030185     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.3.626     Document Type: Article

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