Sense of Purpose in Life and Subjective Cognitive Failures.

ABSTRACT: A greater sense of purpose in life is an aspect of well-being associated with markers of cognitive health across adulthood, including subjective cognition. The current research extends this work to examine how purpose is associated with cognitive failures, which are momentary lapses in cognitive function, whether this association varies by age, sex, race, or education, and whether it is accounted for by depressed affect. Adults across the United States (N=5,100) reported on their sense of purpose in life, recent cognitive failures in four domains (memory, distractibility, blunders, names), and depressed affect. Purpose was associated with fewer cognitive failures overall and within each domain (median d=.30, p<.01), controlling for sociodemographic covariates. These as

SUBMITTER: Sutin AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9988243 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature