Concepedia

Quality of Life in healthy old age: relationships with childhood IQ, minor psychological symptoms and optimism

Gillian Bain, Helen Lemmon, Saskia Teunisse, John M. Starr, Helen Fox, Ian J. Deary, Lawrence J. Whalley

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology · 2003 · 50 citations · 12 references

Concepts

Quality Of LifeLife SatisfactionBehavioral SciencesChild Well-beingSubjective Well-beingMedicineDevelopmental PsychologySocial SciencesMinor Psychological SymptomsHealthy Old AgeMental HealthPsychological Well-beingPsychologyChildhood IqElderly Wellbeing

References

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Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem): A reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test.

Michael F. Scheier, Charles S. Carver, Michael W. Bridges · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1994 · 5.7K citations

Quality Of Life, Affective Neuroscience, Happiness +16

The disability paradox: high quality of life against all odds

Gary L. Albrecht, Patrick Devlieger · Social Science & Medicine · 1999 · 2K citations

Family Medicine, Quality Of Life, Health Policy +11

Deprivation and Health in Scotland

H Tunstall-Pedoe · Postgraduate Medical Journal · 1993 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Is quality of life determined by expectations or experience?

Alison Carr · BMJ · 2001 · 822 citations · Full text

The Stability of Individual Differences in Mental Ability from Childhood to Old Age: Follow-up of the 1932 Scottish Mental Survey

Ian J. Deary, Lawrence J. Whalley, Helen Lemmon et al. · Intelligence · 2000 · 505 citations

Mental Ability, Child Psychology, Psychiatry +9