Personality characteristics are independently associated with prospective memory in the laboratory, and in daily life, among older adults

Authors

Kerry A. McCabe
Steven Paul Woods
Michael Weinborn, Edith Cowan University
Hamid R. Sohrabi, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Stephanie Rainey-Smith, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Belinda M. Brown, Edith Cowan University
Samantha Gardener, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Kevin Taddei, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Ralph Martins, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Author Identifier

Michael Weinborn

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7094-9930

Hamid Reza Sohrabi

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8017-8682

Belinda Brown

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7927-2540

Samantha L Gardener

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1933-5260

Kevin Taddei

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8106-7957

Ralph Martins

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4828-9363

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Journal of Research in Personality

Publisher

Elsevier

School

School of Medical and Health Sciences

RAS ID

27937

Funders

National Health and Medical Research Council

Grant Number

NHMRC Number : 324100

Grant Link

http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/324100

Comments

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: McCabe, K. A., Woods, S. P., Weinborn, M., Sohrabi, H., Rainey-Smith, S., Brown, B. M., ... & Martins, R. N. (2018). Personality characteristics are independently associated with prospective memory in the laboratory, and in daily Life, among older adults. Journal of Research in Personality, 76, 32-37. Available here

This manuscript version is made Available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Abstract

Prospective memory (PM) can deteriorate with age and adversely influence health behaviours. Research suggests that personality is related to PM in healthy young adults, but we know little about the role of personality in the PM amongst older adults. Community-dwelling older adults (N = 152) completed the NEO Five-Factor Inventory-3 and PM measures. After adjusting for demographics and general cognition, higher neuroticism and lower levels of openness were independently associated with lower objectively-measured time- and event-based PM. Lower conscientiousness was the only personality predictor of self-reported everyday PM failures. Findings indicate that personality plays a role in PM functioning in the laboratory and daily life.

DOI

10.1016/j.jrp.2018.06.006

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