“Who will I be?”: The future of the self as described by Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients

El Haj, Mohamad; Allain, Philippe; Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Claire; Chapelet, Guillaume; Antoine, Pascal; Gallouj, Karim

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Article dans une revue scientifique: Article original

DOI :

10.1016/j.gerinurse.2022.04.016

Permalink :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/96987

Title :

“Who will I be?”: The future of the self as described by Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients

Author(s) :

El Haj, Mohamad [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire [LPPL]
Allain, Philippe [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire [LPPL]
Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Claire [Auteur]
Service de neurologie [Nantes]
Chapelet, Guillaume [Auteur]
474972|||Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nantes [CHU Nantes] (VALID)
The Enteric Nervous System in gut and brain disorders [U1235] [TENS]
Antoine, Pascal [Auteur]

Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 [SCALab]
Gallouj, Karim [Auteur]
Centre Hospitalier Gustave Dron [Tourcoing]

Journal title :

Geriatric Nursing

Abbreviated title :

Geriatric Nursing

Volume number :

Pages :

1-6

Publisher :

Elsevier BV

Publication date :

2022-07

ISSN :

0197-4572

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

We assessed how Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients would imagine their self in the future. AD patients and healthy controls were asked to generate statements beginning with “I-will-be” to describe how they saw themselves ...
Show more >We assessed how Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients would imagine their self in the future. AD patients and healthy controls were asked to generate statements beginning with “I-will-be” to describe how they saw themselves or how they wished to be in the future. These statements were analyzed in terms of four self-dimensions, i.e., physical self, social self, psychological self and self-cessation. The latter was investigated to assess how AD patients processed the idea of their own mortality. Findings demonstrated fewer total “I-will-be” statements in AD participants than in controls, suggesting that the construction of future self-concepts becomes weaker in the disease. Our results also demonstrated fewer statements related to the physical-self, the social-self and the psychological-self, and more statements related to self-cessation in AD participants than in controls. These findings suggest that AD patients are highly preoccupied by the idea of death when thinking about the future of their self.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

Collections :

Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193

Research team(s) :

Équipe Dynamique Émotionnelle et Pathologies (DEEP)

Submission date :

2023-12-31T16:29:14Z
2023-12-31T18:29:08Z
2024-01-10T09:55:23Z
2024-03-25T13:38:43Z

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