Motivation and social-cognitive abilities in older adults: Convergent evidence from self-report measures and cardiovascular reactivity.
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Blood Pressure
/ physiology
Cardiovascular System
Cognition
/ physiology
Emotional Regulation
/ physiology
Executive Function
/ physiology
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Motivation
/ physiology
Self Report
Social Skills
Systole
/ physiology
Task Performance and Analysis
Theory of Mind
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
14
10
2018
accepted:
11
06
2019
entrez:
11
7
2019
pubmed:
11
7
2019
medline:
23
2
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Recently, some authors have suggested that age-related impairments in social-cognitive abilities-emotion recognition (ER) and theory of mind (ToM)-may be explained in terms of reduced motivation and effort mobilization in older adults. We examined performance on ER and ToM tasks, as well as corresponding control tasks, experimentally manipulating self-involvement. Sixty-one older adults and 57 young adults were randomly assigned to either a High or Low self-involvement condition. In the first condition, self-involvement was raised by telling participants were told that good task performance was associated with a number of positive, personally relevant social outcomes. Motivation was measured with both subjective (self-report questionnaire) and objective (systolic blood pressure reactivity-SBP-R) indices. Results showed that the self-involvement manipulation did not increase self-reported motivation, SBP-R, or task performance. Further correlation analyses focusing on individual differences in motivation did not reveal any association with performance, in either young or older adults. Notably, we found age-related decline in both ER and ToM, despite older adults having higher motivation than young adults. Overall, the present results were not consistent with previous claims that motivation affects older adults' social-cognitive performance, opening the route to potential alternative explanations.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31291276
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218785
pii: PONE-D-18-29750
pmc: PMC6619662
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0218785Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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