Predicting the psychological health of older adults: Interaction of age-based rejection sensitivity and discriminative facility

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 169-182

  Chow, Debbie Sau King ^a   Au, Evelyn W M ^b   Chiu, Chi Yue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminative Facility; Older Adults; Rejection Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 44249115121     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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