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VARIATIONS IN COGNITIVE STATUS IN OLDER ADULTS WITH MEMORY DIFFICULTIES: THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY AND RESILIENCE

By approximately 70-years-old, two out of three Americans experience some cognitive impairment (Hale et al., 2020). Cognitive abilities that often decline with age include working and short-term memory (Cohen, 2019), both important for encoding and retaining information (Alloway & Copello, 2013)...

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Autores principales: Barbour, Elizabeth, van Antwerp, Kodi, Lind, Majse, Morgan, Amanda, Bluck, Susan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766275/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2093
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van Antwerp, Kodi
Lind, Majse
Morgan, Amanda
Bluck, Susan
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description By approximately 70-years-old, two out of three Americans experience some cognitive impairment (Hale et al., 2020). Cognitive abilities that often decline with age include working and short-term memory (Cohen, 2019), both important for encoding and retaining information (Alloway & Copello, 2013). Depending on severity, affected individuals may face difficulties performing daily tasks. Beyond biological mechanisms, Self-Life Acceptance (Resilience; Wagnild & Young, 1993) and personality (i.e., Neuroticism, Openness; BFI-2-XS; John & Soto, 2017) may relate to variations in cognitive status. We collected measures of Self-Life Acceptance, Neuroticism, and Openness to investigate their relations to older adults’ cognitive status (i.e., working and short-term memory; TICS; Brandt et al., 1988). The sample was comprised of older adults clearly experiencing memory difficulties (N = 49, Mage = 76.12). In a hierarchical regression, the interaction between Self-Life Acceptance and Neuroticism predicted higher cognitive status. Deconstructing this effect, for older people with low-to-moderate Neuroticism, having worse cognitive status was related to greater feelings of Self-Life Acceptance. These individuals show resilience; when cognitive status is worse, acceptance of oneself and life appears to ‘kick in’ allowing individuals to maintain well-being in the face of memory difficulties. Self-Life Acceptance, however, is not present for those high in Neuroticism. In a second regression, less Self-Life Acceptance and higher Openness were also related to better cognitive status. Our findings show psychosocial factors can predict variations in cognitive status. This work provides a window into how older individuals with different personality traits and varying capacity for resilience cope with memory loss.
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spelling pubmed-97662752022-12-20 VARIATIONS IN COGNITIVE STATUS IN OLDER ADULTS WITH MEMORY DIFFICULTIES: THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY AND RESILIENCE Barbour, Elizabeth van Antwerp, Kodi Lind, Majse Morgan, Amanda Bluck, Susan Innov Aging Abstracts By approximately 70-years-old, two out of three Americans experience some cognitive impairment (Hale et al., 2020). Cognitive abilities that often decline with age include working and short-term memory (Cohen, 2019), both important for encoding and retaining information (Alloway & Copello, 2013). Depending on severity, affected individuals may face difficulties performing daily tasks. Beyond biological mechanisms, Self-Life Acceptance (Resilience; Wagnild & Young, 1993) and personality (i.e., Neuroticism, Openness; BFI-2-XS; John & Soto, 2017) may relate to variations in cognitive status. We collected measures of Self-Life Acceptance, Neuroticism, and Openness to investigate their relations to older adults’ cognitive status (i.e., working and short-term memory; TICS; Brandt et al., 1988). The sample was comprised of older adults clearly experiencing memory difficulties (N = 49, Mage = 76.12). In a hierarchical regression, the interaction between Self-Life Acceptance and Neuroticism predicted higher cognitive status. Deconstructing this effect, for older people with low-to-moderate Neuroticism, having worse cognitive status was related to greater feelings of Self-Life Acceptance. These individuals show resilience; when cognitive status is worse, acceptance of oneself and life appears to ‘kick in’ allowing individuals to maintain well-being in the face of memory difficulties. Self-Life Acceptance, however, is not present for those high in Neuroticism. In a second regression, less Self-Life Acceptance and higher Openness were also related to better cognitive status. Our findings show psychosocial factors can predict variations in cognitive status. This work provides a window into how older individuals with different personality traits and varying capacity for resilience cope with memory loss. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9766275/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2093 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Morgan, Amanda
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VARIATIONS IN COGNITIVE STATUS IN OLDER ADULTS WITH MEMORY DIFFICULTIES: THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY AND RESILIENCE
title VARIATIONS IN COGNITIVE STATUS IN OLDER ADULTS WITH MEMORY DIFFICULTIES: THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY AND RESILIENCE
title_full VARIATIONS IN COGNITIVE STATUS IN OLDER ADULTS WITH MEMORY DIFFICULTIES: THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY AND RESILIENCE
title_fullStr VARIATIONS IN COGNITIVE STATUS IN OLDER ADULTS WITH MEMORY DIFFICULTIES: THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY AND RESILIENCE
title_full_unstemmed VARIATIONS IN COGNITIVE STATUS IN OLDER ADULTS WITH MEMORY DIFFICULTIES: THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY AND RESILIENCE
title_short VARIATIONS IN COGNITIVE STATUS IN OLDER ADULTS WITH MEMORY DIFFICULTIES: THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY AND RESILIENCE
title_sort variations in cognitive status in older adults with memory difficulties: the role of personality and resilience
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9766275/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2093
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