A cross-national comparison of reminiscence functions between canadian and israeli older adults

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 184-192

  O'Rourke, Norm ^a   Carmel, Sara ^b   Chaudhury, Habib ^a   Polchenko, Natalia ^a   Bachner, Yaacov G ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Agingand   (Canada)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cross cultural differences; Invariance analyses; Older adults; Reminiscence functions

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL;

AGED; CANADA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874378914     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbs058     Document Type: Article

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