Activities, Self-Referent Memory Beliefs, and Cognitive Performance: Evidence for Direct and Mediated Relations

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 811-825

  Jopp, Daniela ^a   Hertzog, Christopher ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

activity; aging; cognition; lifestyle; memory beliefs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LIFESPAN; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF EFFICACY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 38649119736     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.4.811     Document Type: Article

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