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Assessing the Effects of Healthy and Neuropathological Aging on Personality with the Iowa Scales of Personality Change
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Assessing the Effects of Healthy and Neuropathological Aging on Personality with the Iowa Scales of Personality Change

Christian Zirbes, Andrew Jones, Kenneth Manzel, Natalie Denburg and Joseph Barrash
Developmental neuropsychology, Vol.46(5), pp.393-408
07/20/2021
DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2021.1956500
PMCID: PMC8463441
PMID: 34283684

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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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