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Psychological Morbidity and Emotional Well-Being

To what extent is subjective well-being in late adulthood related to subjective and objective memory functioning? Five-year cross-lagged panel analyses

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Pages 92-99 | Received 28 Mar 2017, Accepted 15 Oct 2017, Published online: 31 Oct 2017

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