在老年人中,每天经历负面的老化刻板印象和现实生活的认知功能:日记研究
Yuting Ma1, Baoshan Zhang1, Xin Zhang2
1School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University.
Psychology and aging
|August 31, 2023
概括
每天经历负面的老化刻板印象与老年人认知失败的增加有关,负面情绪起着调解作用. 当个人遇到各种各样的刻板印象时,这种效应更为明显.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 认知科学 认知科学
背景情况:
- 年长的成年人经常遇到负面的老龄化刻板印象 (例如",易忘记"",脆弱").
- 以前的研究表明,刻板印象对认知的实验性影响,但日常生活的关联性较少被理解.
- 刻板印象多样性对日常生活中的认知功能的影响需要进一步调查.
研究的目的:
- 检查日常负面老化刻板印象体验与老年人现实生活认知功能之间的关联.
- 调查日常负面影响在这种关系中的调解作用.
- 探索负面老龄化刻板印象的多样性是否会缓和这些关联.
主要方法:
- 一个为期一周的每日日记研究,涉及100名老年人.
- 参与者报告了每天的负面老化刻板印象,影响 (积极/消极) 和认知失败的经历.
- 研究1 (n=50) 确定了常见的每日负面老化刻板印象.
主要成果:
- 每天增加的负面老化刻板印象经历与更多的每日认知失败相关.
- 每天的负面影响显著介导了刻板印象经验和认知失败之间的关系.
- 刻板印象体验和认知失败之间的关联仅在具有高负面衰老刻板印象多样性的老年人中具有意义.
结论:
- 每天接触负面老化刻板印象会对老年人的认知功能产生负面影响,部分原因是负面影响增加.
- 负面老化刻板印象的多样性起着至关重要的作用,放大对认知的有害影响.
- 研究结果提供了对刻板印象威胁的见解,并为认知健康和健康老龄化提供了信息.
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