Improving goal striving and resilience in older adults through a personalized metacognitive self-help intervention: a protocol paper.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Successful aging is often linked to individual's ability to demonstrate resilience: the maintenance or quick recovery of functional ability, well-being, and quality of life despite losses or adversity. A crucial element of resilience is behavioral adaptability, which refers to the adaptive changes in behavior in accordance with internal or external demands. Age-related degradation of executive functions can, however, lead to volition problems that compromise flexible adjustment of behavior. In contrast, the reliance on habitual control has been shown to remain relatively intact in later life and may therefore provide an expedient route to goal attainment among older adults. In the current study, we examine whether a metacognitive self-help intervention (MCSI), aimed at f

SUBMITTER: Brinkhof LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10403928 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature