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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 650-661Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1076/jcen.23.5.650.1242
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG08235, R01 AG008235-11, R01 AG008235] Funding Source: Medline
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Self-reported efforts to compensate for memory impairments in everyday life were examined. In seven scales, the Memory Compensation Questionnaire (MCQ) measures five mechanisms of memory compensation, as well as motivation to compensate and awareness of need to compensate. The MCQ was administered twice, at a 3-year interval, to a large sample of healthy older adults (aged initially 55-85 years) from the Victoria Longitudinal Study. Concurrent analyses (n=854) revealed an excellent set of psychometric properties for the MCQ and its scales. Two-wave longitudinal analyses (n=629) revealed overall short-term stability of compensatory strategy use. Although all groups reported a similar pattern of relative frequencies of compensatory mechanism use, select qualifications of age and gender were detected. Applications of the MCQ to investigate awareness, motivation, and implementation of compensatory memory strategies in various populations are discussed.
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