Care recipient agreeableness is associated with caregiver subjective physical health status

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 927-930

  Riffin, Catherine ^a   Löckenhoff, Corinna E ^a   Pillemer, Karl ^a   Friedman, Bruce ^b   Costa Jr , Paul T ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caregiving; Chronic illness; Five factor model personality traits; Subjective health

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; FIVE-FACTOR MODEL PERSONALITY TRAITS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS; SUBJECTIVE HEALTH.; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; ETIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CAREGIVING; CHRONIC ILLNESS; FIVE-FACTOR MODEL PERSONALITY TRAITS; SUBJECTIVE HEALTH.;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880918659     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbs114     Document Type: Article

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