Life satisfaction and social desirability across the late life span: What relationship?

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 241-244

  Fastame, Maria Chiara ^a   Penna, Maria Pietronilla ^a   Hitchcott, Paul Kenneth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Life satisfaction; Metacognition; Social desirability; Well being

Indexed keywords

AGED; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATISFACTION; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STATISTICAL BIAS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 84933034086     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: 15732649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-014-0750-4     Document Type: Article

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