Feeling old today? daily health, stressors, and affect explain day-to-day variability in subjective age

Psychology and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1470-1485

  Kotter Grühn, Dana ^a   Neupert, Shevaun D ^b   Stephan, Yannick ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Affect; Health; Intra individual variability; Stressors; Subjective age

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGED; AGING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VERY ELDERLY;

AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84954371585     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: 14768321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2015.1061130     Document Type: Article

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