TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-efficacy beliefs and change in cognitive performance
T2 - MacArthur studies of successful aging
AU - Seeman, Teresa
AU - McAvay, Gail
AU - Albert, Marilyn
AU - Merrill, Susan
AU - Rodin, Judith
PY - 1996/9
Y1 - 1996/9
N2 - Data from a cohort of relatively high functioning, older men and women were used to test the hypothesis that stronger self-efficacy beliefs predict better maintenance of cognitive performance. Structural equation modeling revealed that stronger baseline instrumental efficacy beliefs predicted better verbal memory performance at follow-up among men but not among women, controlling for baseline verbal memory score and sociodemographic and health status characteristics. For both men and women there were no significant associations between either type of self-efficacy beliefs and measures of nonverbal memory, abstraction, or spatial ability. Consistent with previous research showing relationships between baseline cognitive performance and change in self-efficacy beliefs, better abstraction ability was also predictive of increases in instrumental efficacy beliefs among the men.
AB - Data from a cohort of relatively high functioning, older men and women were used to test the hypothesis that stronger self-efficacy beliefs predict better maintenance of cognitive performance. Structural equation modeling revealed that stronger baseline instrumental efficacy beliefs predicted better verbal memory performance at follow-up among men but not among women, controlling for baseline verbal memory score and sociodemographic and health status characteristics. For both men and women there were no significant associations between either type of self-efficacy beliefs and measures of nonverbal memory, abstraction, or spatial ability. Consistent with previous research showing relationships between baseline cognitive performance and change in self-efficacy beliefs, better abstraction ability was also predictive of increases in instrumental efficacy beliefs among the men.
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U2 - 10.1037/0882-7974.11.3.538
DO - 10.1037/0882-7974.11.3.538
M3 - Article
C2 - 8893321
AN - SCOPUS:0029854688
SN - 0882-7974
VL - 11
SP - 538
EP - 551
JO - Psychology and aging
JF - Psychology and aging
IS - 3
ER -