TY - JOUR
T1 - Interplay of cognitive and motivational resources for out-of-home behavior in a sample of cognitively heterogeneous older adults
T2 - Findings of the SenTra project
AU - Wahl, Hans Werner
AU - Wettstein, Markus
AU - Shoval, Noam
AU - Oswald, Frank
AU - Kaspar, Roman
AU - Issacson, Michal
AU - Voss, Elke
AU - Auslander, Gail
AU - Heinik, Jeremia
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding This work was supported by the German Research Foundation from 2008 to 2011, based on a grant to Hans-Werner Wahl (WA809/11-1).
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - Objectives.We examined in this study the hypothesis that cognitive resources are more closely linked with out-of-home behavior than motivational resources.Method.A cognitively heterogeneous sample of 222 older adults aged 59-91 years (M = 72.7; SD = 6.2), including 146 cognitively healthy persons and 76 persons with mild cognitive impairment - recruited in the German and Israeli arm of the SenTra project - was used for the analysis. Out-of-home behavior was assessed by means of global positioning system technology (time out of home; number of nodes visited) as well as by questionnaire (out-of-home activities). Mini-Mental State Examination and trail-making tests A and B were used to assess cognitive resources. Well-being, depression, and environmental mastery were assessed as motivational resources.Results.Findings at the zero-order and latent variable levels confirmed that cognitive resources were more closely linked with out-of-home behavior than motivational resources.Discussion.Findings support the view that well-being-related motivations to exert out-of-home behavior may become less important in old age because of the increasing cognitive resources required by such behavior.
AB - Objectives.We examined in this study the hypothesis that cognitive resources are more closely linked with out-of-home behavior than motivational resources.Method.A cognitively heterogeneous sample of 222 older adults aged 59-91 years (M = 72.7; SD = 6.2), including 146 cognitively healthy persons and 76 persons with mild cognitive impairment - recruited in the German and Israeli arm of the SenTra project - was used for the analysis. Out-of-home behavior was assessed by means of global positioning system technology (time out of home; number of nodes visited) as well as by questionnaire (out-of-home activities). Mini-Mental State Examination and trail-making tests A and B were used to assess cognitive resources. Well-being, depression, and environmental mastery were assessed as motivational resources.Results.Findings at the zero-order and latent variable levels confirmed that cognitive resources were more closely linked with out-of-home behavior than motivational resources.Discussion.Findings support the view that well-being-related motivations to exert out-of-home behavior may become less important in old age because of the increasing cognitive resources required by such behavior.
KW - Cognitive resources
KW - Mild cognitive impairment
KW - Motivational resources
KW - Old age
KW - Out-of-home behavior
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U2 - 10.1093/geronb/gbs106
DO - 10.1093/geronb/gbs106
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C2 - 23197344
AN - SCOPUS:84882739947
SN - 1079-5014
VL - 68
SP - 691
EP - 702
JO - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
JF - Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
IS - 5
ER -