Instrumental activities of daily living among community-dwelling older adults: Personality associations with self-report, performance, and awareness of functional difficulties

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 65 B, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 542-550

  Suchy, Yana ^a   Williams, Paula G ^a   Kraybill, Matthew L ^a   Franchow, Emilie ^a   Butner, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Aging; Personality; Self awareness

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 77955873008     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbq037     Document Type: Article

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