Memories of Falls: Resolved or Unresolved Memories?

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1080/0361073x.2021.1926829

Permalink :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/74542

Title :

Memories of Falls: Resolved or Unresolved Memories?

Author(s) :

Gallouj, Karim [Auteur]
Altintas, Emin [Auteur]

Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072
El Haj, Mohamad [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire [LPPL]

Journal title :

Experimental Aging Research

Abbreviated title :

Experimental Aging Research

Volume number :

48

Pages :

p.58-67

Publisher :

Informa UK Limited

Publication date :

2021-05-16

English abstract : [en]

Background There is bourgeoning interest in how older adults remember their falls and research in this area has demonstrated how falls can reshape memory retrieval in older adults. We pursued this line of research by ...
Show more >Background There is bourgeoning interest in how older adults remember their falls and research in this area has demonstrated how falls can reshape memory retrieval in older adults. We pursued this line of research by assessing whether older adults succeed in integrating memories of falls into their life story. Methods We invited older adults to remember their falls and analyzed whether these memories were integrated or non-integrated. Results Analysis demonstrated no significant differences between the number of integrated and non-integrated memories. Critically, however, higher anxiety and depression was observed in participants who produced non-integrated memories than in those who produced integrated ones. Discussion The ability to integrate memories of falls in older adults is likely associated with anxiety and depression. Anxiety may result in avoidance of processing of the meaning of falls, and depression may hamper the ability to extract meaning from them, resulting in difficulties for older adults to integrate falls into their life story. Non-integrated memories of falls in older adults may be seen as unresolved memories and deserve special clinical attention.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille

Collections :

Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072

Research team(s) :

(D)REC

Submission date :

2022-05-26T14:45:20Z
2022-06-01T17:17:09Z

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