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Mood and cognition in healthy older European adults: the Zenith study

BACKGROUND: The study aim was to determine if state and trait intra-individual measures of everyday affect predict cognitive functioning in healthy older community dwelling European adults (n = 387), aged 55-87 years. METHODS: Participants were recruited from centres in France, Italy and Northern Ir...

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Autores principales: Simpson, Ellen EA, Maylor, Elizabeth A, McConville, Christopher, Stewart-Knox, Barbara, Meunier, Natalie, Andriollo-Sanchez, Maud, Polito, Angela, Intorre, Federica, McCormack, Jacqueline M, Coudray, Charles
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4416258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25945252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-7283-2-11
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author Simpson, Ellen EA
Maylor, Elizabeth A
McConville, Christopher
Stewart-Knox, Barbara
Meunier, Natalie
Andriollo-Sanchez, Maud
Polito, Angela
Intorre, Federica
McCormack, Jacqueline M
Coudray, Charles
author_facet Simpson, Ellen EA
Maylor, Elizabeth A
McConville, Christopher
Stewart-Knox, Barbara
Meunier, Natalie
Andriollo-Sanchez, Maud
Polito, Angela
Intorre, Federica
McCormack, Jacqueline M
Coudray, Charles
author_sort Simpson, Ellen EA
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: The study aim was to determine if state and trait intra-individual measures of everyday affect predict cognitive functioning in healthy older community dwelling European adults (n = 387), aged 55-87 years. METHODS: Participants were recruited from centres in France, Italy and Northern Ireland. Trait level and variability in positive and negative affect (PA and NA) were assessed using self-administered PANAS scales, four times a day for four days. State mood was assessed by one PANAS scale prior to assessment of recognition memory, spatial working memory, reaction time and sustained attention using the CANTAB computerized test battery. RESULTS: A series of hierarchical regression analyses were carried out, one for each measure of cognitive function as the dependent variable, and socio-demographic variables (age, sex and social class), state and trait mood measures as the predictors. State PA and NA were both predictive of spatial working memory prior to looking at the contribution of trait mood. Trait PA and its variability were predictive of sustained attention. In the final step of the regression analyses, trait PA variability predicted greater sustained attention, whereas state NA predicted fewer spatial working memory errors, accounting for a very small percentage of the variance (1-2%) in the respective tests. CONCLUSION: Moods, by and large, have a small transient effect on cognition in this older sample.
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spelling pubmed-44162582015-05-06 Mood and cognition in healthy older European adults: the Zenith study Simpson, Ellen EA Maylor, Elizabeth A McConville, Christopher Stewart-Knox, Barbara Meunier, Natalie Andriollo-Sanchez, Maud Polito, Angela Intorre, Federica McCormack, Jacqueline M Coudray, Charles BMC Psychol Research Article BACKGROUND: The study aim was to determine if state and trait intra-individual measures of everyday affect predict cognitive functioning in healthy older community dwelling European adults (n = 387), aged 55-87 years. METHODS: Participants were recruited from centres in France, Italy and Northern Ireland. Trait level and variability in positive and negative affect (PA and NA) were assessed using self-administered PANAS scales, four times a day for four days. State mood was assessed by one PANAS scale prior to assessment of recognition memory, spatial working memory, reaction time and sustained attention using the CANTAB computerized test battery. RESULTS: A series of hierarchical regression analyses were carried out, one for each measure of cognitive function as the dependent variable, and socio-demographic variables (age, sex and social class), state and trait mood measures as the predictors. State PA and NA were both predictive of spatial working memory prior to looking at the contribution of trait mood. Trait PA and its variability were predictive of sustained attention. In the final step of the regression analyses, trait PA variability predicted greater sustained attention, whereas state NA predicted fewer spatial working memory errors, accounting for a very small percentage of the variance (1-2%) in the respective tests. CONCLUSION: Moods, by and large, have a small transient effect on cognition in this older sample. BioMed Central 2014-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4416258/ /pubmed/25945252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-7283-2-11 Text en © Simpson et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Simpson, Ellen EA
Maylor, Elizabeth A
McConville, Christopher
Stewart-Knox, Barbara
Meunier, Natalie
Andriollo-Sanchez, Maud
Polito, Angela
Intorre, Federica
McCormack, Jacqueline M
Coudray, Charles
Mood and cognition in healthy older European adults: the Zenith study
title Mood and cognition in healthy older European adults: the Zenith study
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title_short Mood and cognition in healthy older European adults: the Zenith study
title_sort mood and cognition in healthy older european adults: the zenith study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4416258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25945252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2050-7283-2-11
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