Emotional Reactivity and Mortality: Longitudinal Findings from the VA Normative Aging Study

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 398-406

  Mroczek, Daniel K ^a,b   Stawski, Robert S ^c   Turiano, Nicholas A ^d   Chan, Wai ^e   Almeida, David M ^f   Neupert, Shevaun D ^g   Spiro, Avron ^h,i,j  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

ⁱ BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^j BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Emotion; Emotion regulation; Longevity; Personality; Quantitative methods

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGED; AGING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84936999219     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbt107     Document Type: Article

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