A psychometric study of mechanism of executive dysfunction in persons with cognitive disabilities as a core symptom

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380919
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Tokyo Gakugei University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUDA Osamu 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (60282787)
• Research Collaborator: HOTTA Yukari ; MOTOMURA Yuri ; IKUTA Yusuke ; TAKEISHI Sho ; HORI Masanori ; FURUKAWA Kanami
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 遂行機能 / 実行機能 / 認知症 / 発達障害 / 認知機能障害

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to clarify cognitive mechanism underlying upon executive dysfunction in social and daily lives of persons with cognitive disabilities as a core symptom by psychometric approach. To clarify this point, this study conducted both non-clinical sample study and clinical sample study.　The former consisted of university students and community-dwelling older persons, and the latter consisted of older persons who went to dementia clinic due to cognitive decline and school children who were referred to educational guidance by a clinical psychologist due to learning and/or behavioral difficulties from their teacher and parents.　The results suggested a possibility that the executive dysfunction might be accounted for by disabilities in working memory, attention, inhibition, and fluid reasoning.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学