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- Berg, Anne Ingeborg, 1973, et al.
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Living with stable MCI: Experiences among 17 individuals evaluated at a memory clinic.
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Ingår i: Aging & mental health. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1364-6915 .- 1360-7863. ; 17:3, s. 293-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a state of mildly impaired cognitive functioning but with an intact capability of performing basic daily activities. Few studies have targeted personal narratives from persons living with MCI, the major focus in this study is directed to methods for better predictions of the likelihood for conversion to dementia. This study directly explores experiences among individuals who have lived with MCI over seven years without converting to dementia. Methods: Seventeen individuals, who had been diagnosed with MCI across four occasions over a seven-year period at a memory clinic, were interviewed at a single occasion about their experiences of living with MCI, life events, stress, coping, psychosocial resources, and lifestyle behaviors. Results: Thematic analysis of the transcripts of the interviews resulted in themes revolving around the life situation and events related to the first visit at the memory clinic, coping with lower cognitive capacity with the aim of enhancing quality of life, and worries about dementia and further cognitive deteriorations. Conclusion: The participants' experiences of living with MCI indicate that issues and changes in life situations such as long-term stress, retirement, loss of relatives, perceived heritability of dementia, needs to be understood in the context of the individual's understanding and interpretation of their everyday cognitive functioning. Also, supportive long-term contacts with the specialist care unit were vital for creating a personal understanding of MCI. Addressing the intra-personal dynamics of cognitive functioning in the boundary between normal and pathological cognitive aging can also improve diagnostic accuracy.
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- Berg, Anne Ingeborg, 1973, et al.
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Personality Change in the Oldest-Old: Is It a Matter of Compromised Health and Functioning?
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of personality. - : Wiley. - 1467-6494 .- 0022-3506. ; 82:1, s. 25-31
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present longitudinal study investigates continuity and change in the personality dimensions of extraversion and neuroticism among the oldest-old. Overall disease load, self-rated health, functional capacity, impaired vision and hearing, self-reported cognitive impairment, and measured cognitive status were tested for their role as potentially relevant late-life predictors of personality change. The sample consists of 408 individuals aged 80-98 in the Swedish OCTO-Twin Study who completed the Eysenck Personality Inventory at four measurement occasions during a 6-year period. Growth curve analyses revealed an age-related linear decrease in extraversion and stability in neuroticism. More extraverted individuals were more educated and perceived their health and cognition as better. Notably, only hearing impairment was found to be related to a steeper age-related decline in extraversion. A life span developmental model focusing on health-related changes can improve our understanding of personality change in late life.
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- Berg, Anne Ingeborg, 1973, et al.
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Satisfaction With Past, Present and Future life: The Role of Personality and Locus of Control
- 2016
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Ingår i: 2016 Annual Meeting Gerontological Society of America.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Eriksson proposed that being satisfied with the way life turned out is a central developmental task of old age, leading to as sense of integrity that also will bring satisfaction to present life. However, life satisfaction has so far commonly been studied as a global measure disregarding the temporal domains of satisfaction with life. The three-factor solution of the LSI-Z (Neugarten, 1961); Congruence (past-oriented), Mood (present-oriented) and Zest (future-oriented), enables the investigation of different trajectories and factors of relevance for different temporal domains of life satisfaction. The present study investigates the unique associations between level and change in the LSI-Z factors Congruence, Mood, and Zest, and their associations to personality and locus of control across four measurement occasions over six years in a sample of 80-98 year old individuals from the OCTO-Twin-study. MLM growth curve analyses showed that Mood and Zest decreased over time, but Congruence remained stable. Extraversion was related to level of Congruence and Zest, but not to Mood. Neuroticism was related to Mood and Zest but not to Congruence. Locus of control was not related to Congruence, but to Mood and Zest. The results indicate that individual perceptions of quality of life in past, present and future life is related to personality and sense of control. Different associations between personality and control and temporal dimension of the life satisfaction concept have implications for research on quality of life in older adults.
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- Berg, Anne Ingeborg, 1973, et al.
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What matters, and what matters most, for change in life satisfaction in the oldest-old? A study over 6 years among individuals 80+.
- 2009
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Ingår i: Aging & mental health. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1364-6915 .- 1360-7863. ; 13:2, s. 191-201
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVES: The study investigates whether markers of life satisfaction identified in a cross-sectional study-quality of social network, self-rated health, depressive symptoms, locus of control and widowhood, in addition to financial satisfaction and the personality traits of extraversion and neuroticism-predict change in life satisfaction (LSI-Z) across four measurement occasions during a 6-year period in individuals aged 80+. METHOD: Data were drawn from the Swedish OCTO-Twin-study of individuals aged 80 and older. RESULTS: Growth curve analysis showed a relatively consistent significant linear decline in life satisfaction, but certain markers predicted change in life satisfaction. The loss of spouse, in particular in men, and higher levels of depressive symptoms were related to lower levels of life satisfaction over time. CONCLUSION: The results from the study question the notion of a life-long stability of life satisfaction.
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- Berg, A I, et al.
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What matters most for life satisfaction in the oldest-old?
- 2006
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Ingår i: Aging & Mental Health. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1360-7863 .- 1364-6915. ; , s. 257-264
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with life satisfaction in the old-est-old within a spectrum of psychosocial and health related variables. Scores on the life satis-faction index (LSI-Z) were related to scales and questions regarding, demographics, depres-sion, locus of control, cognitive function, functional capacity (instrumental and personal ac-tivities of daily living), self-rated overall health and medically based health, and social net-work. The sample consisted of 315 participants, aged 80-98 years; (M = 83 years, 66% women). Regression analyses indicated that social network quality, self-rated overall health, sense of being in control of one's life, and depressive symptoms were significantly associated with life satisfaction. There was no gender difference in overall life satisfaction. However, there were different patterns of variables associated with life satisfaction in men and women. Self-rated overall health and depressive symptoms were related to life satisfaction in women, whereas widowhood was significantly associated with lower life satisfaction among men. The results emphasize the need to analyse associates of life satisfaction within a broader context of psychosocial variables and separately for men and women.
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- Bjälkebring, Pär, 1984, et al.
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Happiness and arousal: framing happiness as arousing results in lower happiness ratings for older adults
- 2015
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Psychology. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 1664-1078 .- 1664-1078. ; 6
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- Older adults have been shown to describe their happiness as lower in arousal when compared to younger adults. In addition, older adults prefer low arousal positive emotions over high arousal positive emotions in their daily lives. We experimentally investigated whether or not changing a few words in the description of happiness could influence a person's rating of their happiness. We randomly assigned 193 participants, aged 22-92 years, to one of three conditions (high arousal, low arousal, or control). In line with previous findings, we found that older participants rated their happiness lower when framed as high in arousal (i.e., ecstatic, to be bursting with positive emotions) and rated their happiness higher when framed as low in arousal (i.e., satisfied, to have a life filled with positive emotions). Younger adults remained uninfluenced by the manipulation. Our study demonstrates that arousal is essential to understanding ratings of happiness, and gives support to the notion that there are age differences in the preference for arousal.
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- Bjälkebring, Pär, 1984, et al.
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Helping Out or Helping Yourself? Volunteering and Life Satisfaction Across the Retirement Transition : Supplemental Material
- 2021
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Ingår i: Psychology and Aging. - : American Psychological Association (APA). - 0882-7974 .- 1939-1498. ; 36:1, s. 119-130
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- © 2020 American Psychological Association. It has been suggested that volunteering leads to increases in well-being, particularly in older and retiring adults, and that volunteering could be used as a public health intervention to increase well-being. However, the causal relationship has been questioned. We investigated the association between voluntary work and life satisfaction in a bivariate dual-change score model, using 4 years of longitudinal data from 1,123 participants from the Health, Aging and Retirement Transitions in Sweden (HEARTS) study. Both the frequency of volunteering and the level of life satisfaction increased across the retirement transition. However, baseline life satisfaction and volunteering were only marginally associated. Further, the coupling parameters suggest that higher levels of volunteering were followed by decreases in life satisfaction and that higher levels of life satisfaction were followed by increases in volunteering. These findings suggest that increasing levels of volunteering might not be a fruitful strategy for improving life satisfaction for all older adults-if people engage too much in voluntary work, it might even be detrimental for their life satisfaction. More research is needed to better understand when and for whom increased levels of volunteering might have positive effects on life satisfaction.
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