For better and for worse: The relationship between future expectations and functioning in the second half of life

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 66 B, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-203

  Shrira, Amit ^a   Palgi, Yuval ^b   Ben Ezra, Menachem ^c   Spalter, Tal ^a   Kavé, Gitit ^d   Shmotkin, Dov ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aging; Functioning; Future expectations; SHARE

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; DISABILITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETIREMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETIREMENT; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79953322271     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbq103     Document Type: Article

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