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| The role of personality and coping style in relation to awareness of current functioning in early-stage dementia | | Author(s) | A Seiffer, L Clare, R Harvey |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 9, no 6, November 2005 |
| Pages | pp 525-541 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Early ; Recognition ; Personality ; Attitude ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Researchers in Australia investigated the role of psychological factors in unawareness to early-stage dementia, focusing on personality and coping strategies. 49 individuals with "non-frontal" dementia and their partners completed standardised self-report questionnaires. Multiple regression analyses indicated that personality factors - in particular negative attitudes towards emotional expression - were related to avoidant behavioural coping in managing the threat of dementia. Neither negative attitudes towards emotional expression nor avoidant behavioural coping related to unawareness after controlling for relevant disease-related and emotional variables. However, a relationship was found between conscientiousness and unawareness. The findings were interpreted with reference to literature on processes of denial and a distinction between conscious behavioural avoidance and unconscious defensive denial was made. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060202240 A |
| Classmark | EA: 4J: 4AD: DK: DP: 7YA |
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