Aging - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Felt obligation to help others as a protective factor against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline in middle and later life.

11 Oct 2009 This study examined felt obligation to help others in two domains (close others and society) as protective factors against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline. Lagged-dependent regression models were estimated using data ... Read more...

Social network types and subjective well-being in Chinese older adults.

7 Oct 2009 The study examined social network types in a sample of 1,005 older Chinese adults in Hong Kong and the networks' relations to subjective well-being. Given the nature of kinship in Chinese society, we broke down social support provision by closeness ... Read more...

Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults.

7 Oct 2009 Only half of older adults with a mental disorder use mental health services, and little is known about the causes of perceived need for mental health care (MHC). We used logistic regression to examine relationships among depression, anxiety, chronic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Aging - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: an introduction. 30 Oct 2009
• Felt obligation to help others as a protective factor against losses in psychological well-being following functional decline in middle and later life. 11 Oct 2009
• Social network types and subjective well-being in Chinese older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• Rapid emotion regulation after mood induction: age and individual differences. 4 Oct 2009
• Recognition of facial, auditory, and bodily emotions in older adults. 3 Oct 2009
• Language preference and development of dementia among bilingual individuals. 29 Sep 2009
• Your brain: use it or lose it. 29 Sep 2009
• Age differences in collaborative memory: the role of retrieval manipulations. 29 Sep 2009
• Longitudinal study of the transition from healthy aging to Alzheimer disease. 29 Sep 2009
• Factors associated with cognition in adults: the Seattle Longitudinal Study. 29 Sep 2009
• Associations between psychological distress, learning, and memory in spouse caregivers of older adults. 15 Sep 2009
• Attitudes toward menstrual suppression and conformity to feminine norms in young and middle-aged Mexican women. 30 Aug 2009
• Cochlear implantation in children with congenital cytomegalovirus infection. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of early cochlear implantation on the linguistic development of the deaf child. 30 Aug 2009
• [Self-defining memories: last episodic memories bastion in normal aging?] 30 Aug 2009
• [Psychology and neuropsychiatry of aging] 30 Aug 2009
• Computerized cognitive testing in aging. 30 Aug 2009
• Measuring impairments in memory and executive function in older people using the Revised Cambridge Cognitive Examination. 30 Aug 2009
• Age differences in tracking characters during narrative comprehension. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Aging'

Definition: The gradual irreversible changes in structure and function of an organism that occur as a result of the passage of time.

Descriptor UI: D000375

Alternative terms: Aging; Senescence; Biological Aging; Aging, Biological;

Related Mesh Headings: Skin Aging; Cell Aging;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug effects; ethnology; genetics; immunology; metabolism; physiology; psychology; radiation effects; urine; ethics; pathology;

Tree Number: G07.700.320.124;

Technical Notes: human & animal; IM; aging process anywhere between birth & old age; differentiation from other age-related terms: Manual 28.16, 34.10; "aging" of lower organisms, cultures, drugs, etc. is probably TIME FACTORS; AGING, PREMATURE is also available