Decomposing the relationship between cognitive functioning and self-referent memory beliefs in older adulthood: what’s memory got to do with it?
Autor: | Brennan R. Payne, George W. Rebok, Jeanine M. Parisi, Alden L. Gross, Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow, Patrick L. Hill |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Aging Reconstructive memory Culture Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests Article 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Cohort Studies 03 medical and health sciences Cognition 0302 clinical medicine Memory Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Cognitive skill Episodic memory Problem Solving Aged Aged 80 and over Autobiographical memory 05 social sciences Middle Aged Self Efficacy Psychiatry and Mental health Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Female Childhood memory Geriatrics and Gerontology Verbal memory Psychology Psychomotor Performance 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive load Cognitive psychology |
Zdroj: | Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. 24:345-362 |
ISSN: | 1744-4128 1382-5585 |
Popis: | With advancing age, episodic memory performance shows marked declines along with concurrent reports of lower subjective memory beliefs. Given that normative age-related declines in episodic memory co-occur with declines in other cognitive domains, we examined the relationship between memory beliefs and multiple domains of cognitive functioning. Confirmatory bi-factor structural equation models were used to parse the shared and independent variance among factors representing episodic memory, psychomotor speed, and executive reasoning in one large cohort study (Senior Odyssey, N = 462), and replicated using another large cohort of healthy older adults (ACTIVE, N = 2,802). Accounting for a general fluid cognitive functioning factor (comprised of the shared variance among measures of episodic memory, speed, and reasoning) attenuated the relationship between objective memory performance and subjective memory beliefs in both samples. Moreover, the general cognitive functioning factor was the strongest predictor of memory beliefs in both samples. These findings are consistent with the notion that dispositional memory beliefs may reflect perceptions of cognition more broadly. This may be one reason why memory beliefs have broad predictive validity for interventions that target fluid cognitive ability. |
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