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Cognitive Processes, Self-Reports of Memory Functioning, and Mental Health Status in Older Adults

Forrest Scogin, PhD

University of Alabama

Martin Rohling, MA

University of Alabama

A battery of cognitive tasks was administered to a group of community-dwelling older adults. They also completed questionnaires assessing their cognitive and memory functioning and mental health status. A person familiar with the participant completed the same set of questionnaires. Little or no association was observed among the laboratory-type cognitive tasks and the self-assessments of cognition and memory, but significant relationships were observed between self-reported mental health and both the cognitive tasks and the subjective memory assessments. However, significant others' assessments of the participants' cognitive and memory functioning were related to laboratory-assessed cognitive functioning. These results suggest that mental health status and both cognitive performance and self-reports of cognitive and memory functioning are linked. Results also suggest that significant others may be better judges of actual cognitive performance than are elders themselves.

Journal of Aging and Health, Vol. 1, No. 4, 507-520 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/089826438900100406
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