Mood impairs time-based prospective memory in young but not older adults: The mediating role of attentional control
Schnitzspahn, Katharina Thorley, Craig Phillips, Louise Voight, Babette Threadgold, Emma Hammond, Emily Mustafa, Besim Kliegel, Matthias
Schnitzspahn, Katharina
Thorley, Craig
Phillips, Louise
Voight, Babette
Threadgold, Emma
Hammond, Emily
Mustafa, Besim
Kliegel, Matthias
Abstract
The present study examined age-by-mood interactions in prospective memory and the potential role of attentional control. Positive, negative, or neutral mood was induced in young and older adults. Subsequent time-based prospective memory performance was tested, incorporating a measure of online attentional control shifts between the ongoing and the prospective memory task via time monitoring behavior. Mood impaired prospective memory in the young, but not older, adults. Moderated mediation analyses showed that mood effects in the young were mediated by changes in time monitoring. Results are discussed in relation to findings from the broader cognitive emotional aging literature. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Date
2014
Type
Journal article
Journal
Psychology and Aging
Book
Volume
29
Issue
2
Page Range
264-270