Motivational Reserve: Lifetime Motivational Abilities Contribute to Cognitive and Emotional Health in Old Age

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 886-899

  Forstmeier, Simon ^a   Maercker, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cognition; cognitive impairment; emotional health; motivation; self regulation

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APTITUDE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 58749099823     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013602     Document Type: Article

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