Subjective health in old age from a salutogenic perspective

British Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 767-787

  Wiesmann, Ulrich ^a   Niehörster, Gabriele ^a   Hannich, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIATOR; MOOD DISORDER; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OPTIMISM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 72849145548     PISSN: 1359107X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135910709X413124     Document Type: Article

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