The moderating role of negative affect on objective verbal memory performance and subjective memory complaints in healthy older adults

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 327-336

  Dux, Moira C ^a,b   Woodard, John L ^a   Calamari, John E ^a   Messina, Michael ^a   Arora, Shalini ^a   Chik, Heather ^a   Pontarelli, Noelle ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Anxiety; Depression; Mental recall; Regression analysis; Retention (Psychology); Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGED; AMNESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA RATING SCALE 2ND EDITION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RECALL; REY AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; SELF CONCEPT; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 39549121047     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617708080363     Document Type: Article

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