Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, NC, USA.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2009 Jul;22(4):475-81. doi: 10.1080/10615800802449610.
Memory complaints among older adults are often influenced by depression and anxiety, but the association of stress to memory complaints has received little attention. We examined the associations of perceived stress, life events, and activity level to everyday memory complaints among healthy older women, while controlling for the influence of depression and anxiety. Participants (N=54) completed self-report questionnaires on memory complaints, perceived stress, recent life events, activity level, depression, and anxiety. Partial correlation analyses indicated that higher levels of perceived stress were associated with higher levels of memory complaints when controlling for the influence of depression and anxiety, but that life events and activity level were not related to memory complaints. This study highlights that perceived stress, like depression and anxiety, is a psychological factor that influences the appraisal of cognitive ability; however, larger and more heterogeneous samples will be needed to better understand the multifactorial nature of memory complaints in older adulthood.
老年人的记忆抱怨往往受到抑郁和焦虑的影响，但压力与记忆抱怨的关联却很少受到关注。我们研究了感知压力、生活事件和活动水平与健康老年女性日常记忆抱怨之间的关联，同时控制了抑郁和焦虑的影响。参与者（N=54）完成了记忆抱怨、感知压力、近期生活事件、活动水平、抑郁和焦虑的自我报告问卷。偏相关分析表明，在控制抑郁和焦虑影响的情况下，感知压力水平越高，记忆抱怨水平越高，而生活事件和活动水平与记忆抱怨无关。这项研究强调，感知压力与抑郁和焦虑一样，是影响认知能力评价的心理因素；然而，需要更大和更多样化的样本才能更好地理解老年记忆抱怨的多因素性质。
