Genetic and environmental influences on Optimism and its relationship to mental and self-rated health: A study of aging twins

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 597-604

  Mosing, Miriam A ^a,b   Zietsch, Brendan P ^a,b   Shekar, Sri N ^a,b   Wright, Margaret J ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Mental health; Optimism; Somatic health; Twin design

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OPTIMISM; PESSIMISM; SELF CONCEPT; TWINS; WELLBEING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PHENOTYPE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUEENSLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERAMENT; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 71549139715     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-009-9287-7     Document Type: Article

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