2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Developing the questionnaire of subjective everyday memory and cognition for the Japanese elderly.
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13610186
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
教育・社会系心理学
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| Research Institution | Shizuoka University of Welfare (2004)
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology (2001-2003) |
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Principal Investigator |
ISHIHARA Osamu Shizuoka University of Welfare, Faculty of Social Welfare, Professor, 社会福祉学部, 教授 (30250195)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2004
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| Keywords | everyday memory / aging / elderly / cognitive failure / questionnaire / activity of daily living |
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| Research Abstract |
Generally memory performance declines as one gets older. Tip of tongue is one of the most well known phenomenon for elderly. Everyday slips or lapses have been thoroughly examined. However, rare studies have been conducted to examine how older people feel about their daily memory and cognitive activities. For this reason, we developed a self-report questionnaire in order to measure which field of everyday memory and cognitive functions the elderly feel inferior to the young.
After we conducted a pre-test twice, we newly selected 36 questionnaire items about daily memory and cognitive performance for the elderly. Note that most of items were closely related to hot issues of cognitive psychology today (e.g., working memory, and prospective memory). We then conducted in-home interview Setagaya-ku, Tokyo. A final number used for an analysis was 2332, and this rate was 66%.
We again conducted in-home interview with 1550 elders residing in the rural area. A final number used for an analysis was 1134, and the rate was 73%. We conducted a factor analysis, extracted eight factors, and labeled these factors as 'Use of advanced informational tool,' 'Facial recognition,' 'Forgetting,' 'Storage and encoding,' 'Autobiographical memory,' 'Environmental cognition,' 'Use of memory aid,' and 'Prospective memory' respectively.
The most interesting result was that these eight factors seem to be very similar to the factors that we have already found in Tokyo. This result suggests that those, which were deeply related to the every memory and cognition, were supposed to be quite stable.
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Research Products
(22 results)
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[Book] 記憶の生涯発達心理学2006
Author(s)
太田信夫, 多鹿秀継(編)
Total Pages
320
Publisher
北大路書房(発刊予定)
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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[Book] 介護と衣生活2005
Author(s)
小林茂雄, 田中美智(編)
Total Pages
159
Publisher
同文書院
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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[Book] 長寿科学辞典2003
Author(s)
井形昭弘, 上田 敏ら(編)
Total Pages
1164
Publisher
医学書院
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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