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Self-reports on memory functioning in a longitudinal study of the oldest old
— relation to current, prospective, and retrospective performance | | Author(s) | Boo Johansson, Rebecca Allen-Burge, Steven H Zarit |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 3, May 1997 |
| Pages | pp P139-P146 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Performance ; Mental ageing ; Octogenarians ; Longitudinal surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | Self-evaluation of memory performance, one aspect of metamemory, may be an important indicator of concurrent, retrospective or future decline in memory functioning. The relationships among self-evaluations, cognition, and outcome were investigated in the OCTO study, a longitudinal population-based panel of over 80s in Jönköping, Sweden. Using current data, results indicate that overall cognitive ability, depression, gender, and education were associated with self-reports of memory for the entire sample. The relation of perception of decline to actual decline was also examined. Self-reported decline over a 2-year period was associated with actual decline on three tests of memory. Finally, self-reported memory function was investigated as an indicator of future cognitive decline and diagnosis of dementia. The self-evaluations predicted decline on specific tests of memory over 2 years and subsequent diagnosis of dementia after 2 and 4 years. The amount of variance accounted for by self-evaluations, however, was relatively small, suggesting that complaints reflect different processes, only one of which is the pathological decline involved in dementia. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125250 A |
| Classmark | DB: 5H: D6: BBM: 3J: 76P |
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