Dispositional optimism protects older adults from stroke: The health and retirement study

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2855-2859

  Kim, Eric S ^a   Park, Nansook ^a   Peterson, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; optimism; psych and behavior; public health; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISPOSITIONAL OPTIMISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGATIVE AFFECT; NEUROSIS; OPTIMISM; PESSIMISM; POSITIVE AFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SELF CONCEPT; STROKE;

AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 80053300198     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.613448     Document Type: Article

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