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Think positively and feel positively: optimism and life satisfaction in late life

Beeto Wai-Chung Leung1, Giovanni B Moneta, Catherine McBride-Chang

  • 1The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

International Journal of Aging & Human Development
|December 2, 2005
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