Cognitive failures in late adulthood: The role of age, social context and depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT: The incidence of self-reported cognitive failures among older adults may be an index of successful cognitive aging. However, self-reported cognitive failures are biased by variation in depressive symptomatology. This study examined age-related and socio-cultural context effects on cognitive failures while controlling for depressive symptoms. Both overall and specific factors of cognitive failures were determined. A further goal was to investigate the relationship between working memory and cognitive efficiency measures and cognitive failures. One hundred and thirty-nine cognitively healthy adults were recruited from two populations known to differ in their dispositions toward cognitive failures and depressive symptoms (Sardinia and northern Italy). The participants were assigned to Young O

SUBMITTER: Hitchcott PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5731702 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature