Intergenerational Potential: Effects of Social Interaction Between Older Adults and Adolescents

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 690-704

  Kessler, Eva Marie ^a   Staudinger, Ursula M ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

collaboration; generativity; identity formation; interactive minds; intergenerational relationships

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 38649118173     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.4.690     Document Type: Article

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