“I Remember the Fall”: Memory of Falls in Older Adults

Gallouj, Karim; Altintas, Emin; El Haj, Mohamad

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1080/07317115.2020.1787573

Permalink :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/74545

Title :

“I Remember the Fall”: Memory of Falls in Older Adults

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 :

Clinical Gerontologist

Abbreviated title :

Clinical Gerontologist

Pages :

p.1-9

Publisher :

Informa UK Limited

Publication date :

2020-07-06

English keyword(s) :

aging
autobiographical memory
falls
memory
memory of falls

English abstract : [en]

Objectives While there is a large body of research on falls and their consequences in older adults, little is known about how older adults remember them. We addressed this gap by inviting older adults to remember falls ...
Show more >Objectives While there is a large body of research on falls and their consequences in older adults, little is known about how older adults remember them. We addressed this gap by inviting older adults to remember falls and control memories. Methods We analyzed specificity of memories and invited participants to rate emotional valence, mental time travel, visual imagery, importance, and rehearsal, as experienced during retrieval. Results Although analysis demonstrated no significant differences between memories of falls and control memories regarding specificity, participants rated memories of falls as more negative than control memories. Furthermore, they rated memories of falls as triggering higher mental time travel, higher visual imagery, higher importance, and higher rehearsal than control memories. Conclusions The negative emotional valence of memories of falls, as well as their ability to trigger significant levels of mental time travel, visual imagery, importance, and rehearsal, demonstrate how these memories are different from other memories in older adults.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille

Collections :

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

Research team(s) :

Education & Société

Submission date :

2022-05-26T14:57:06Z
2022-06-01T16:57:01Z
2023-05-12T06:13:47Z
2024-01-09T16:05:43Z

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