Zirbes C, Jones A, Manzel K, Denburg N, Barrash J. Assessing the Effects of Healthy and Neuropathological Aging on Personality with the Iowa Scales of Personality Change.
Dev Neuropsychol 2021;
46:393-408. [PMID:
34283684 DOI:
10.1080/87565641.2021.1956500]
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Abstract
Personality changes in older adults with brain disease may be confounded by effects of normal aging. In this cross-sectional study, ratings with the Iowa Scales of Personality Change for 62 healthy older adults (OA-H, aged 60+) were compared to matched older adults with brain diseases (OA-BD). OA-H did not show any significant personality changes from middle age to older adulthood. However, between 10% and 20% of OA-H developed a disturbance in Lack of Stamina, Inflexibility, Lability, and Lack of Insight. Otherwise, the pattern of findings suggesting normal aging effects on personality disturbances in clinical groups are generally minimal.
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