Stability and change in affective experience across the adult life span: Analyses with a national sample from Germany

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1086-1095

  Kunzmann, Ute ^a   Richter, David ^b   Schmukle, Stefan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Aging; Anger; Happiness; Sadness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AFFECT; AGED; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUPS BY AGE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD CHANGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENESCENCE; STEADY STATE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANGER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890112852     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033572     Document Type: Article

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