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Personality predicts prospective memory task performance: an adult lifespan study.

Carrie Cuttler¹, Peter Graf

¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. cuttler@psych.ubc.ca

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Personality and lifestyle traits significantly predict prospective memory performance in healthy adults. Cognitive abilities do not predict prospective memory when personality and lifestyle factors are considered.

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Cognitive Neuroscience
Gerontology

Background:

Prospective memory (PM) is crucial for daily functioning.
Understanding factors influencing PM, such as personality, lifestyle, and cognitive abilities, is important for healthy aging.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if personality and lifestyle predict episodic prospective memory (PM) task performance.
To determine if cognitive abilities predict PM performance independently of personality and lifestyle.
To examine the influence of age on these relationships.

Main Methods:

A study involving 141 healthy adults aged 18-81.
Participants completed episodic PM tasks (laboratory and field), personality assessments, lifestyle evaluations, and cognitive ability tests.

Main Results:

Personality and lifestyle factors reliably predicted performance across all three PM tasks.
Conscientiousness, socially prescribed perfectionism, and neuroticism were significant predictors.
Cognitive ability predicted performance on only one laboratory PM task and lost predictive power when personality and lifestyle were controlled.

Conclusions:

Personality and lifestyle variables are strong predictors of episodic prospective memory performance.
Cognitive abilities do not independently predict prospective memory performance when personality and lifestyle are accounted for.
These findings highlight the importance of non-cognitive factors in prospective memory.