Attitude toward own aging in midlife and early old age over a 12-year period: Examination of measurement equivalence and developmental trajectories

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 588-600

  Miche, Martina ^a   Elsässer, Valerie C ^a   Schilling, Oliver K ^a   Wahl, Hans Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitude toward own aging; Differential item functioning; Measurement invariance; Philadelphia geriatric morale scale; Subjective aging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AGING; ATTITUDE TOWARD OWN AGING SUBSCALE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; SELF-RATING DEPRESSION SCALE; YOUNG ADULT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84921735837     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037259     Document Type: Article

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