Daily Memory Lapses and Affect: Mediation Effects on Life Satisfaction.

ABSTRACT: Memory lapses are a type of daily challenge that are common to most people and are associated with negative mood outcomes. How daily challenges are associated and linked to broad domains, like life satisfaction and well-being, has been underexamined. Life satisfaction is often assessed from a macro-level that emphasizes average differences over longer timeframes, yet daily experiences (i.e., micro-level) may accumulate to shape these characteristics. In the current study, we examined if daily memory lapses (e.g., difficulties with word-finding or forgetting a meeting) were associated with life satisfaction, and whether this relationship was mediated by the associated changes in positive and negative affect due to daily memory lapses. In a coordinated analysis of two datasets (N = 56

SUBMITTER: Turner JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9255853 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature