Personality and subjective age among older adults: The mediating role of age-group identification

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1037-1043

  Canada, Brice ^a   Stephan, Yannick ^b   Caudroit, Johan ^c   Jaconelli, Alban ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Age group identification; Older adults; Personality; Subjective age

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84887414033     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2013.807420     Document Type: Article

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