The Role of Attitude Toward Own Aging for Fluid and Crystallized Functioning: 12-Year Evidence from the ILSE Study

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 836-845

  Siebert, Jelena S ^a   Wahl, Hans Werner ^a   Schröder, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Attitude Toward Own Aging; Cognition; Fluid and crystallized abilities; Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Development and Aging

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; COGNITIVE AGING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTOR;

AGED; AGING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; COGNITIVE AGING; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 85047571178     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbw050     Document Type: Article

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