Perceiving Control: A Double-Edged Sword in Old Age

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1988 • 30,173 citations

Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.

1988 • 28,735 citations

Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health.

1988 • 7,315 citations

The happy personality: A meta-analysis of 137 personality traits and subjective well-being.

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Daily Well-Being: The Role of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness

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The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: A field experiment in an institutional setting.

1976 • 1,257 citations

The sense of control as a moderator of social class differences in health and well-being.

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1981 • 1,053 citations

The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: A field experiment in an institutional setting.

1976 • 1,026 citations

Aging and Health: Effects of the Sense of Control

1986 • 951 citations

Attributions of blame and coping in the "real world": Severe accident victims react to their lot.

1977 • 807 citations

Attributions, beliefs about control, and adjustment to breast cancer.

1984 • 805 citations

Research with the Locus of Control Construct

1981 • 788 citations

Is age-related stability of subjective well-being a paradox? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Berlin Aging Study.

2000 • 632 citations

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1986 • 589 citations

The Berlin Aging Study

1998 • 556 citations

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1986 • 485 citations

Pessimistic explanatory style is a risk factor for physical illness: A thirty-five-year longitudinal study.

1988 • 482 citations

The psychology of control and aging

1986 • 457 citations

Perceived control, motivation, and coping

1996 • 451 citations

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1988 • 421 citations

Negative reactions to increases in perceived personal control.

1989 • 401 citations

The many faces of dependency in old age

1996 • 373 citations

Positive Affect and Function as Influences on Self-Assessments of Health: Expanding Our View Beyond Illness and Disability

2000 • 357 citations

Appraisals of control and predictability in adapting to a chronic disease.

1987 • 329 citations

Locus of control in aging research: A case for multidimensional and domain-specific assessment.

1986 • 289 citations

The experience of emotional well-being.

1993 • 273 citations

Appraisals of control and predictability in adapting to a chronic disease.

1987 • 271 citations

Locus of control in aging research: A case for multidimensional and domain-specific assessment.

1986 • 262 citations

Self‐Generated Feelings of Control and Adjustment to Physical Illness

1991 • 217 citations

Intraindividual variability in perceived control in a older sample: The MacArthur successful aging studies.

1997 • 183 citations

Moderators of the relation between perceived control and adjustment to chronic illness.

1992 • 170 citations

The Berlin Aging Study

1994 • 165 citations

Intraindividual variability in perceived control in a older sample: The MacArthur successful aging studies.

1997 • 147 citations

Perceived control over development and subjective well-being: Differential benefits across adulthood.

2001 • 145 citations

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2001 • 143 citations

Profiles of psychological functioning in the old and oldest old.

1997 • 128 citations

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1999 • 108 citations

Longitudinal analysis of specific domains of internal control and depressive symptoms in patients with recurrent cancer.

1996 • 61 citations

Longitudinal analysis of specific domains of internal control and depressive symptoms in patients with recurrent cancer.

1996 • 42 citations

Two-Wave Longitudinal Findings From the Berlin Aging Study: Introduction to a Collection of Articles

2002 • 27 citations

Being and feeling in control: Two sources of older people's emotional well-being

1999 • 6 citations