Six-Year Change in Affect Optimization and Affect Complexity Across the Adult Life Span: A Further Examination

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 738-751

  Labouvie Vief, Gisela ^a   Diehl, Manfred ^b   Jain, Elizabeth ^c   Zhang, Fang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ASSUMPTION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

adult development aging; affect complexity; affective development; emotion regulation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL; PREDICTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38649085278     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.4.738     Document Type: Article

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