Daily stressors and emotional reactivity in individuals with mild cognitive impairment and cognitively healthy controls

Daily experiences of stress are common and have been associated with worse affect among older adults. People with mild cognitive impairment (PWMCI) have measurable memory deficits in between normal cognition and dementia and have been identified as having greater psychological distress than cognitively healthy older adults (CHOAs). Little is known about whether daily stressors contribute to distress among PWMCI. We hypothesized that compared with CHOAs, PWMCI would have higher daily negative affect and lower daily positive affect, report greater numbers and severity of daily stressors, and experience greater emotional reactivity to daily stressors. Fifteen clinically diagnosed PWMCI and 25 CHOAs completed daily reports of stressors, stressor severity, and positive and negative affect over an 8-day period. PWMCI reported higher daily negative affect, lower daily positive affect, and higher numbers and greater severity of memory stressors but did not differ from CHOAs in numbers or severity of general stressors. Cognitive status was a moderator of the daily stress-affect relationship. Days with greater numbers and severity of general daily stressors were associated with higher negative affect only for PWMCI. The numbers and severity of memory stressors were not associated with negative affect. In addition, more severe general daily stressors and memory stressors were associated with lower positive affect for all participants. Results suggest that PWMCI are less resilient in the face of daily stress than are CHOAs in terms of negative affect, perhaps because of declines in reserve capacity. The study presents a promising approach to understanding stress and coping in predementia states of cognition..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Psychology and aging - 30(2015), 2, Seite 420-431

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rickenbach, Elizabeth Hahn [VerfasserIn]
Condeelis, Kristen L [Sonstige Person]
Haley, William E [Sonstige Person]

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77.00

Themen:

Adulthood (18 yrs & older)
Aged
Aged (65 yrs & older)
Article
Boston Naming Test
Care and treatment
Cognition disorders
Daily Memory Problems Measure [Appended]
Daily Stressors Measure
Daily affect
Daily stress
Delayed Word Recall Test
Digit Span Backward Test
Digit Span Forward Test
Digit Symbol Test
Empirical Study
Female
Health aspects
Human
Immediate Word Recall Test
Influence
Interview
Male
Mild cognitive impairment
Mini Mental State Examination
Positive and Negative Affect Schedule
Psychological aspects
Quantitative Study
Stress (Psychology)
Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status
Trail Making Test

doi:

10.1037/a0038973

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1957479892