The Content of Nostalgic Memories Among People Living with Dementia
| Autor: | Emily Dodd, Sanda Ismail, Gary Christopher, Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, Richard Cheston |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
Aging
Social connectedness Memory Episodic media_common.quotation_subject Emotions 050109 social psychology Affect (psychology) 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Dementia Formerly Health & Social Sciences 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Centre for Health and Clinical Research Content (Freudian dream analysis) Reliability (statistics) media_common self-esteem Psychological Sciences Research Group Autobiographical memory 05 social sciences autobiographical memory social connectedness Self-esteem Reproducibility of Results medicine.disease Self Concept meaning in life Ageing self-continuity Health Mental Recall Health & Wellbeing Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology Alzheimer’s disease |
| ISSN: | 0091-4150 1541-3535 |
| Popis: | Although dementia may affect the reliability of autobiographical memories, the psychological properties of nostalgic memories may be preserved. We compared the content of nostalgic ( n = 36) and ordinary ( n = 31) narratives of 67 participants living with dementia. Narratives were rated according to their self-oriented, social, and existential properties, as well as their affective content. Social properties and affective content were assessed using a linguistic word count procedure. Compared to the ordinary narratives described in the control condition, nostalgic narratives described a typical events, expressed more positive affect, and had more expressions of self-esteem and self-continuity. They were also rated higher on companionship, connectedness and the closeness of relationships, and reflected life as being meaningful. Despite their cognitive impairment, people living with dementia experience nostalgia in similar ways to cognitively healthy adults, with their nostalgic narratives containing self-oriented, social, and existential properties. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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