Age stereotypes and age stigma: Connections to research on subjective aging

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 99-119

  Chasteen, Alison L ^a   Cary, Lindsey A ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGEISM; AGING; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREJUDICE; RACISM; STEREOTYPY; STIGMA;

EID: 84940797264     PISSN: 01988794     EISSN: 19444036     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1891/0198-8794.35.99     Document Type: Chapter

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