Age effects in cultural life scripts

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 291-298

  Janssen, Steve M J ^a,b   Rubin, David C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE EVENT; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79953063553     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1690     Document Type: Article

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