Abstract:
AbstractBackground: The aim of the present study was to predict cognitive failures in the elderly based on personality dimensions and lifestyle and examine the mediating role of negative emotions as a model. Materials and Methods: This research is of correlation type and its statistical population included all the elderly in Tehran. In the present study, 150 elderly persons participated by convenience sampling method. Research instruments were cognitive failures, Eysenck Personality Inventory, lifestyle scale and Negative emotions. In order to analyze the data, the path analysis and stepwise regression analysis were used. Results: The results showed that personality dimensions and lifestyle can significantly and negatively predict emotions and cognitive failures and finally with respect to the proposed model, it was found that lifestyle and personality dimensions could significantly predict cognitive failures through the mediation negative emotions. Conclusions: The result obtained from this study can be used to identify the groups vulnerable to cognitive failures and make necessary recommendations to the experts to understand the causes and etiology, consultation and prevention of cognitive failures
Machine summary:
Many researchers have found that the cognitive failures include distract, memory problems, blunders and not to recall names (Feng, 2016; Wallace, 2002; Broadbent, 1982; Larson 1991; Robertson, 1997; Mecacci, 2004; Mecacci, Righi, 2006; Wallace, Popp, 2006).
In review of literature, the relationship between cognitive failures with different variables such as emotional disorders (Sullivan, 2007), worry and tension (Mahoney, 1998; Wallace, 2006), accidents (Larson, 1997), fatigue (Wallace, 2006), and coping strategies (Matthews, 1990) were obtained.
The cause of cognitive failures and dementia is not only the cognitive changes; in fact, recent studies suggest that other factors such as personality dimensions (Giluk, 2009), emotional factors such as stress (Mahoney, 1998; Wallace, 2006), quality of life and social support (Gallagher, 2016), anxiety and depression (Snowdon, 2002), can lead to these changes and have an important role in cognitive failures.
The relationship between lifestyle, personality dimensions and cognitive failures mediation Negative emotions, the proposed model was calculated and processing.
Table 2 directions and standardized coefficients proposed model, the causal relation between personality dimensions and cognitive failures and lifestyle through the intermediary Negative emotions, show.
Discussion and Conclusion In analyzing the research data, the approved model indicates the mediating role of Negative emotions, in prediction of cognitive failures by personality dimensions and lifestyle.
Therefore, among the studied variables, the variable of Personality dimensions is more related to the variable of lifestyle for cognitive failures and negative emotions.