Everyday challenges in context: The influence of contextual factors on everyday problem solving among young, middle-aged, and older adults

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 230-247

  Artistico, Daniele ^a   Orom, Heather ^b   Cervone, Daniel ^c   Krauss, Stephen ^c   Houston, Eric ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77749264243     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610731003613938     Document Type: Article

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