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The social sciences have had relatively little to offer concerning the fundamental question of what keeps people alive. The more subtle operation of psychosocial variables in longevity has been pretty much ignored as a subject of systematic investigation, although suicide—in the restricted sense of an obvious instrumental process of self-destruction—has been receiving steady attention (e.g., 14,15). A number of interesting clinical observations have been made, but controlled, programmatic studies seem to be at a premium (3,8).
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Kastenbaum, R. (1964). Longevity and life patterns. In: Kastenbaum, R. (eds) New Thoughts on Old Age. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38534-0_6
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