TY - JOUR
T1 - A youthful age identity mitigates the effect of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms on successful aging
AU - Shrira, Amit
AU - Palgi, Yuval
AU - Ben-Ezra, Menachem
AU - Hoffman, Yaakov
AU - Bodner, Ehud
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by a research seed grant from the Center for Research and Study of Aging at the University of Haifa and from the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - Successful aging refers to optimal functioning in such domains as physical and cognitive health, and further includes the subjective perception of aging well.1 Exposure to traumatic events, and particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, may hamper successful aging.2 This study examined whether maintaining a youthful age identity3 may mitigate the effect of PTSD symptoms on successful aging.
AB - Successful aging refers to optimal functioning in such domains as physical and cognitive health, and further includes the subjective perception of aging well.1 Exposure to traumatic events, and particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, may hamper successful aging.2 This study examined whether maintaining a youthful age identity3 may mitigate the effect of PTSD symptoms on successful aging.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962534533&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jagp.2015.07.006
DO - 10.1016/j.jagp.2015.07.006
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C2 - 26560506
SN - 1064-7481
VL - 24
SP - 174
EP - 175
JO - American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
JF - American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
IS - 2
ER -
