Flexible and tenacious goal pursuit lead to improving well-being in an aging population: a ten-year cohort study
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Flexible and tenacious goal pursuit lead to improving well-being in an aging population: a ten-year cohort study.
BACKGROUND Previous research has shown that tendencies to tenaciously pursue goals and flexibly adapt goals independently relate to well-being in adults in mid-to-late life, but research has not tested whether these tendencies interact. For example, tenacity may only predict well-being in combination with flexibility. This research tests whether these tendencies interact to predict changes in h...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Psychogeriatrics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1041-6102,1741-203X
DOI: 10.1017/s1041610212001391