Examination of Associations among Three Distinct Subjective Aging Constructs and Their Relevance for Predicting Developmental Correlates

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 547-560

  Brothers, Allyson ^a   Miche, Martina ^a,b   Wahl, Hans Werner ^b   Diehl, Manfred ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward aging; Developmental correlates; Subjective aging.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85021815729     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbv085     Document Type: Article

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