Psychological Resources for Well-Being Among Octogenarians, Nonagenarians, and Centenarians: Differential Effects of Age and Selective Mortality

Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis

Volumn 20, Issue , 2008, Pages 329-346

  Smith, Jacqui ^a   Gerstorf, Denis ^b   Li, Qiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Age difference; Attrition sample; Centenarian; Chinese oldest old; Cohort difference; Cross sectional sample; Engagement in life; Fourth age; Mortality; Nonagenarian; Objective life conditions; Octogenarian; Psychological resources; Sample selectivity; Structural equation; Subjective well being; Successful aging; Survivor sample

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145084143     PISSN: 18772560     EISSN: 22151990     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6752-5_20     Document Type: Chapter

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