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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Older Adulthood"”.
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Training And Transfer Of Attentional Control In Older Adulthood
… Previous research has demonstrated that older adults are able to improve their performance on laboratory cognitive tests and in some cases these benefits can transfer to other similar tests: e.g. Kramer et al., 2004). A few cases have demonstrated transfer to more distal outcomes: Willis …
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The effects of verbal working memory training on language comprehension in older adulthood
… abilities and learning new information through adulthood. However, age-related changes in cognitive abilities such as working memory (WM) have a profound influence on the products of language comprehension (e.g., problem solving, learning, following instructions). At the same time, the effects …
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Effects of Alcohol Use on Cognition During Later Adulthood
… (between the ages of 50 and 74) and cognition in older adulthood. Results revealed that the quantity of self-reported drinks over the three time points was a significant predictor of cognition in older adulthood (b=0.001; p<.001), although the effect sizes were very small and not meaningful. …
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Examining the Social Investment Hypothesis: The Relationship of Social Role Investment and Personality Trait Development in Adulthood
… mechanism of personality trait change in adulthood. The current research examines the importance of social investment as a developmental construct that is reciprocally related to Big Five personality traits over time. Investments in work, family, and community roles were examined in a …
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Sexuality in the third age
… explored the importance of sexual activity in older adulthood by synthesising qualitative research in this area. This systematic review was completed between April 2019 and October 2019. Search strategies were conducted using key terms. Seven databases were searched and nine studies were deemed …
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Transitioning Eating Practices of Older Adults
… have influenced the transition of an individual older adult’s eating practices over a lifespan and the impact participants perceived those factors currently had upon their nutritional health in older adulthood.</p> <p><strong>Background</strong>: The older adult population is recognized as one of …
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Effects of Life Review on Happiness and Life Satisfaction in Older Adults
… review on happiness and life satisfaction in the older population. Participants from 71 to 85 years of age completed a demographics questionnaire, the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) and the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). SHS and SWLS were completed every other day from the beginning to the …
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Narrative of Black Older Women Communicating with Healthcare Professionals
… examined the lived experiences of seven Black older women, ages 67 to 87, communicating with healthcare professionals. The research questions that guided the study were: (1) what are the experiences of the study participants navigating interactions with healthcare professionals? (2) how does …
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Examining cohabitation in emerging adulthood
… but much of the current literature has utilized older data sets from the 1980s or age ranges from emerging adulthood, young adulthood, and older adulthood in the same studies. Supported by life course theory, inertia theory, and selection effects theory, the current study examined cohabitation …
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The Relationship of Physical Activity and Sport Participation to Body Image in Older Adults
… to body image among adults aged 50 years and older. The sample included 182 Senior Olympians (79 men; 103 women) with a mean age of 65.5 years. Three scales measured the components of BI: the Social Physique Anxiety Scale (SPAS) measured affective BI, the Contour Rating Drawing Scale (CRDS) …
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The Effects of Poverty and Allostatic Load on the Development of Chronic Disease
… demographics, poverty (during childhood, young adulthood, and mid/late adulthood), allostatic load—a cumulative measure of system dysregulation—and the Charlson Comorbidity Index, a measure of chronic disease and mortality, using data from the Biopsychosocial and Religion and Health Study (BRHS; …
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Making it count: Explorations of time limitation and meaning
… of ageing or particular challenges that face older adults but this study aimed to explore contemporary experiences of approaching or reaching pensionable age through the holistic perspective embraced by counselling psychology. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was conducted on the …
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Attention-memory interactions in children and young adults
… memory shows protracted development into young adulthood, then declines in older adults. In this thesis, I propose that this developmental trajectory is a result of age-related changes to attentional control, which affects associative memory performance in children and older adults. To test …
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Identity development across the lifespan.
… traditionally aged college freshmen and adults older than 60 years of age. Uncommitted identity statuses and work and leisure wellness domains were endorsed across both groups, suggesting that identity for these groups is in a state of fluctuation yet entailing participation as a productive …
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Meanings, beliefs, and well-being: a qualitative study of social support among African American elders
… and had resiliency relative to the life stage of older adulthood. The foundation of their supportive interactions was based on their belief systems as well as their desire to reciprocate support. These informants were atypical by education and occupation. Varied coping resources emerged from the …
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Self-efficacy, self-regulation, and physical activity behavior in type 2 diabetes
… a major public health priority, especially in older adulthood when disease prevalence rises to ~20%. T2D is related to a host of symptoms and comorbidities including impairments in cognitive function. Despite evidence of the benefits of physical activity to control disease, alleviate symptoms, …
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Challenges Associated with Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder in Older Adults and the Impact on Psychosocial Development
… of the appropriate diagnosis and treatment of older individuals living with borderline personality disorder (BDP), yet there is limited information regarding the impact of the disorder in later adulthood. The pivotal work of Erik Erikson, specifically his psychosocial stages of development, is …
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What Contributes to Well-Being in Later Life? How Two Life-Span Perspectives Explain the Process
… this study examined individual differences in older adults’ goal achieving strategies and goal types using survey questionnaires. Although SOC and SST can explain general age changes in goal strategies and goal types, resources are important factors to explain individual differences in goal …
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The role of semaphorin 3A signaling underlying learning and memory formation in the postnatal mouse brain
… increasing at day P28, and persisting into older adulthood. We also show that canonical Sema3A signaling is activated in the mouse hippocampus following spatial learning on a novel object place recognition (NOPR) task, suggesting that Sema3A signaling is critical for the consolidation of …
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The Assessment Of Remote Memory
… were administered to a sample of middle-aged and older-aged participants. The test items were revised based on the participants' responses. The Revised Public Events Recall and Recognition Tasks were then administered to a group of young participants to determine whether the items were primarily …
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