Mediators of the relationship between life events and memory functioning in a community sample of adults

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 626-633

  Korten, Nicole C M ^a   Sliwinski, Martin J ^b   Comijs, Hannie C ^a   Smyth, Joshua M ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE INTERFERENCE; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THOUGHT DISORDER; VERY ELDERLY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84927693002     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.3043     Document Type: Article

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