Psychological factors influencing self-assessments of health: Toward an understanding of the mechanisms underlying how people rate their own health

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 292-303

  Mora, Pablo A ^a,d   DiBonaventura, Marco D ^b   Idler, Ellen ^a   Leventhal, Elaine A ^c   Leventhal, Howard ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Imap Research and CHS International   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional limitations; Longitudinal analysis; Self assessed health; Trait negative affectivity; Trait positive affectivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MORTALITY; SELF EVALUATION;

AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 57749203163     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-008-9065-4     Document Type: Article

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