Geraci Lisa, De Forrest Ross, Hughes Matthew, Saenz Gabriel, Tirso Robert
a Department of Psychology , Texas AM University , College Station , TX , USA.
b Department of Psychology , Brandeis University , Waltham , MA , USA.
Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn. 2018 May;25(3):333-350. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2017.1299853. Epub 2017 Mar 10.
Subjective age, or how old a person feels, is an important measure of self-perception that is associated with consequential cognitive and health outcomes. Recent research suggests that subjective age is affected by certain situations, including cognitive testing contexts. The current study examined whether cognitive testing and positive performance feedback affect subjective age and subsequent cognitive performance. Older adults took a series of neuropsychological and cognitive tests and subjective age was measured at various time points. Participants also either received positive or no feedback on an initial cognitive task, an analogies task. Results showed that participants felt older over the course of the testing session, particularly after taking a working memory test, relative to baseline. Positive feedback did not significantly mitigate this subjective aging effect. Results suggest that subjective age is malleable and that it can be affected by standard cognitive and neuropsychological test conditions.
主观年龄，即一个人感觉自己多大年纪，是自我认知的一项重要指标，与重要的认知和健康结果相关。近期研究表明，主观年龄会受到某些情境的影响，包括认知测试环境。本研究考察了认知测试和积极的表现反馈是否会影响主观年龄及随后的认知表现。老年人接受了一系列神经心理学和认知测试，并在不同时间点测量主观年龄。参与者在一项初始认知任务（类比任务）上要么收到了积极反馈，要么没有收到反馈。结果显示，与基线相比，参与者在测试过程中感觉自己变老了，尤其是在进行工作记忆测试之后。积极反馈并未显著减轻这种主观衰老效应。结果表明，主观年龄具有可塑性，并且会受到标准认知和神经心理学测试条件的影响。
