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| Anxiety, cognitive performance and cognitive decline in normal aging | | Author(s) | Julie Loebach Wetherell, Chandra A Reynolds, Margaret Gatz |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 3, May 2002 |
| Pages | pp P246-P255 |
| Keywords | Anxiety ; Mental ageing ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Twins ; Longitudinal surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | A sample of 704 cognitively intact individuals (mean age 63.7) from the Swedish Adoption/ Twin Study of Ageing (SATSA) performed a battery of cognitive tests, as many as three times, at 3-year intervals. The authors used random effect models to analyse cross-sectional relationships between cognitive performance and state anxiety, and longitudinal relationships between cognitive change and neuroticism, after controlling for gender, age and education. Cross-sectionally, higher state anxiety was associated with poorer performance on Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Synonyms, WIT III Analogies, Koh's Block Design, two measures of visual learning (Names and Faces, and Thurstone's Picture Memory), and for men, CVB-Scales Digit Span Test and Card Rotations. In longitudinal models, the main effects for neuroticism were significant for Block Design, Symbol Digit, and Names and Faces, but there were no significant interactions among neuroticism, gender and time. These results provide some support for Eysenck's processing efficiency theory, but none for neuroticism as a risk factor for collective decline in normal ageing. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020617207 A |
| Classmark | ENP: D6: DB: SVR: 3J: 76P |
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