Parental longevity correlates with offspring's optimism in two cohorts of community-dwelling older subjects

Age

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 461-468

  Rius Ottenheim, Nathaly ^a   Kromhout, Daan ^b   De Craen, Anton J M ^a,c   Geleijnse, Johanna M ^b   Van Der Mast, Roos C ^a   Zitman, Frans G ^a   Westendorp, Rudi G ^a,c   Slagboom, P Eline ^a,c   Giltay, Erik J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Ageing   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dispositional optimism; Longevity; Maternal inheritance; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY LIVING; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGEVITY; MALE; OPTIMISM; PARENTAL AGE; PERSONALITY; PROGENY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTS; PERSONALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84857919445     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-011-9236-2     Document Type: Article

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