Overall successful aging: Its factorial structure and predictive factors

Asian Social Work and Policy Review

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-74

  Kahng, Sang Kyoung ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Alternative way of measuring successful aging; Meaning of successful aging; Overall successful aging; Second order confirmatory factor analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149109725     PISSN: 17531403     EISSN: 17531411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-1411.2008.00010.x     Document Type: Article

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