ArticleJournal of psychosomatic research2020
Personality and memory performance over twenty years: Findings from three prospective studies.
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- Five-Factor Model Personality Traits and the Trajectory of Episodic Memory: Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis of 471,821 Memory Assessments from 120,640 Participants.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Pooled it
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- Personality Change Profiles and Changes in Cognition Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults.Journal of research in personality · 2021Article
- A coordinated analysis of the associations among personality traits, cognitive decline, and dementia in older adulthood.Journal of research in personality · 2021Article
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- Memory and Personality Development in Adulthood: Evidence From Four Longitudinal Studies.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- Forgetting faces over a week: investigating self-reported face recognition ability and personality.PeerJ · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe present study examined whether personality traits are related to episodic memory over the long-term.
methodParticipants were adults from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Graduate (WLSG, N = 3726) and Sibling samples (WLSS, N = 1720), and the Midlife in the United States Study (MIDUS, N = 2411). Five factor model personality traits and demographic factors were measured at baseline. Memory performance on immediate and delayed free recall tasks was assessed at follow-up, almost 20 years later.
resultsIn regression models that accounted for demographic factors, consistent evidence was found across three samples that middle-aged adults who scored higher on neuroticism performed significantly worse on a memory test 20 years later. In the WLSG and WLSS and a meta-analysis, higher openness was also associated with better memory at follow-up. High neuroticism and low openness were also associated with a 20 to 40% increased risk of performing below one and a half standard deviation from the sample mean on the memory task.
conclusionsThe present study extends previous research with evidence that the association between personality traits and memory function persist over two decades.
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