Self-Construal Moderates Age Differences in Social Network Characteristics

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 222-226

  Yeung, Dannii Y ^a   Fung, Helene H ^a   Lang, Frieder R ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

adulthood; culture; interdependence; social network; socioemotional selectivity theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 43049117540     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.23.1.222     Document Type: Article

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