Psychological Aging: A Contextual View

Handbook of Models for Human Aging

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 881-895

  Wahl, Hans Werner ^a   Lang, Frieder R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012369391-4/50075-8     Document Type: Chapter

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