Age moderates associations between dementia worry and subjective cognition
Spalding, David M. and Hart, Rebecca and Henderson, Robyn and Nicholls, Louise A. Brown (2024) Age moderates associations between dementia worry and subjective cognition. Cognition and Emotion. ISSN 1464-0600 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2371095)
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Abstract
The present study assessed whether dementia worry is associated with adults’ subjective cognitive difficulties, and whether any associations are moderated by age. Participants were 477 adults aged 18–90 years. They completed standard, subjective measures of dementia worry and everyday cognitive difficulties (i.e. attention, language, verbal and visual-spatial memory, and visual-perceptual ability). Moderated regression analyses included dementia worry as a predictor of specific cognitive difficulties, and age as a moderator. Covariates included gender, trait cognitive and somatic anxiety, general aging-related anxiety, depression, stress, mental health treatment status, and health status. Greater overall dementia worry, and specifically more frequent dementia worry, were both associated with greater attentional difficulty in middle-aged and older adults, but not in young adults. Cognitions about developing dementia in reaction to memory lapses were also associated with greater cognitive difficulties across the adult lifespan for multiple cognitive domains. Results highlight a robust relationship between dementia worry and subjective attentional difficulties, especially in middle-aged and older adults. Worry frequency is also more influential with adult aging. A cognitive or meta-cognitive mechanism may underlie subjective cognitive concerns across the adult lifespan.
ORCID iDs
Spalding, David M., Hart, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0399-8266, Henderson, Robyn and Nicholls, Louise A. Brown ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3520-6175;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 89663 Dates: DateEvent7 July 2024Published7 July 2024Published Online17 June 2024Accepted27 November 2023SubmittedSubjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology
Medicine > Medicine (General)Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Psychological Sciences and Health > Psychology
Strategic Research Themes > Health and WellbeingDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 19 Jun 2024 10:39 Last modified: 09 Oct 2024 00:41 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/89663