Fatores de personalidade, funcionamento cognitivo e sintomas de depressão em idosos

• Autor(a) principal: Gonzatti, Valéria
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/899
• topic: PSICOLOGIA; IDOSOS (PSICOLOGIA)DEPRESSÃO; PERSONALIDADE; COGNIÇÃO; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

Personality factors relate to the cognitive functioning of elderly and depressive symptoms in old age. The model of the Big Five consists of the factors Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness to Experience, one of the most accepted models to investigate the personality. High neuroticism levels are associated with worse performance on cognitive tasks and Openness seems to be an important factor in the maintenance of cognitive abilities during the aging process. Personality factors are not static over the life cycle, showing changes in normative periods of human development. Thus, the main objective of this thesis was to investigate the relationship between the Big Five personality traits, cognitive functioning and depressive symptoms in the elderly. It also sought to examine the role predictor of cognitive functioning and depressive symptoms in personality factors of the elderly; comparing the amplitude of personality factors among older adults and adults; and check the role predictor of sociodemographic variables (age, education, income, gender and marital status) in personality factors and older adults. Considering the objectives of this thesis, we developed two empirical studies that had cross-sectional design. In the first study, we evaluated 72 elderly, aged 60 to 85 years, recruited from social groups of Porto Alegre and the Metropolitan Region. The elderly responded to a form of socio demographic data, cognitive tests that measured attention, memory and executive functions, the inventory of personality (NEO-FFI-R) and depressive symptomatology (GDS-15). In the second study, the sample consisted of 151 participants, 78 elderly and 73 adults, who responded to a record of socio demographic data and personality inventory (NEO-FFI-R). The results of the first study showed that depressive symptoms appear most strongly associated, in relation to the other, the higher rates of Neuroticism and lower Extraversion, Openness and Conscientiousness. In relation to cognitive functioning, it was found that seniors who have a worse executive functioning, show higher rates of Neuroticism and lower extraversion. In the second study, there were differences between the personality factors of elderly and adults. The adult age group had a higher risk for high ranking in Neuroticism, Extraversion and Openness to Experience. On the other hand, older people were at risk for high ranking in Conscientiousness factor. Based on the results of the two studies, it had concluded that there is a relationship between personality factors, cognitive functioning and depressive symptoms in the elderly. In addition, noted that adults differ in the elderly as to the extent of personality factors.