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Are they half as strong as they used to be? An experiment testing whether age-related social comparisons impair older people's hand grip strength and persistence
OBJECTIVE: To assess how age-related social comparisons, which are likely to arise inadvertently or deliberately during assessments, may affect older people's performance on tests that are used to assess their needs and capability. DESIGN: The study randomly assigned participants to a compariso...
Autores principales: | Swift, Hannah J, Lamont, Ruth A, Abrams, Dominic |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Group
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3364452/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22619267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001064 |
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