Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States.
Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, United States.
Dev Neuropsychol. 2021 Aug;46(5):393-408. doi: 10.1080/87565641.2021.1956500. Epub 2021 Jul 20.
Personality changes in older adults with brain disease may be confounded by effects of normal aging. In this cross-sectional study, ratings with the Iowa Scales of Personality Change for 62 healthy older adults (OA-H, aged 60+) were compared to matched older adults with brain diseases (OA-BD). OA-H did not show any significant personality changes from middle age to older adulthood. However, between 10% and 20% of OA-H developed a disturbance in , and . Otherwise, the pattern of findings suggesting normal aging effects on personality disturbances in clinical groups are generally minimal.
老年人的脑部疾病可能会导致人格变化,这可能与正常衰老的影响有关。在这项横断面研究中,我们比较了 62 名健康老年人(OA-H,年龄在 60 岁以上)的爱荷华人格变化量表评分与匹配的脑部疾病老年人(OA-BD)的评分。OA-H 从中年到老年没有表现出任何明显的人格变化。然而,10%到 20%的 OA-H 出现了 和 的紊乱。否则,这些发现表明,临床组中人格障碍的正常衰老影响模式通常很小。