Illness Burden and Symptoms of Anxiety in Older Adults: Optimism and Pessimism as Moderators
Background: We assessed the association between medical illness burden and anxiety symptoms, hypothesizing that greater illness burden would be associated with symptoms of anxiety, and that optimism would buffer, while pessimism would exacerbate, this relationship. Methods: We recruited 109 older ad...
Main Authors: | Hirsch, Jameson K., Walker, Kristin L., Chang, Edward C., Lyness, Jeffrey M. |
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Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University
2012
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Online Access: | https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/677 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610212000762 |
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