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relationship between personality, hope, andresilience. Results shows that neuroticism was found significantly and negatively correlated with hope (r = -.298, p < .01) and resilience (r=-.205, p <.05) among aged. Conscientiousness was found significantly and positively correlated with hope (r = .337, p < .01), andresilience (r = .523, p < .01) among aged. Extraversion was found positively correlated with resilience (r =.455, p < .01), and agreeablenesswas also found positively correlated with resilience (r = .198, p < .05). Hope was found significantly and positively correlated withresilience (r = .550, p< .01) among aged. Keywords • Personality and Hope, Personality and resilience,Personality, hope and aged, Personality, resilience and aged.
POW046 - On the Integration of Need-Related Autobiographical Memories: The Role of SelfCongruence andDepressive Symptoms among Elderly Individuals J. Van der Kaap-Deeder (1)M. Vansteenkiste (1)S. Van Petegem (2)F. Raes (3)B. Soenens (1)(1) Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Developmental, Social, and Personality Psychology,Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium(2) Family and Development Research Centre, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland(3) Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Objective: Within Self-Determination Theory, integration denotes the process through which people accept past and presentexperiences and harmonize these experiences within their identity. We investigated associations between different indicators of (poor)integration of need-related memories and memory-related affect as well as the role of depressive symptoms and self-congruence herein.Finally, we investigated whether late adults, compared to adolescents, would be better capable of integrating need-frustrating memoriesand whether selfcongruence accounted for these age differences.Method: Participants were 133 adolescents (Mage = 18.01; SD = 2.30; 56.4% women) and 147 late adults (Mage = 76.13; SD = 7.57; 66.0%women), who reported on their level of depressive symptoms and self-congruence. Next, participants generated a need-satisfying andneed-frustrating memory and reported on their current memory-specific affect.Results: Whereas depressive symptoms related mainly to the poor integration of need-frustrating memories, self-congruence relatedpositively to the integration of both need-satisfying and need-frustrating memories, with integration relating to more positive and lessnegative affect. Late adults scored higher than adolescents on the integration of need-frustrating memories, an effect that was partlyaccounted for by late adults’ elevated self-congruence.Conclusion: Self-congruence, depressive symptoms, and age play an important role in the integration of need-based autobiographicalmemories. Keywords • autobiographical memories, integration, Self-Determination Theory, depressive symptoms, selfcongruence
POW047 - EFFECTS OF A PROGRAM OF COGNITIVE STIMULATION WITH LEISURE ACTIVITIES AND GAMESFOR ELDERLY Elisabeth Grimaud (1,3)David Clarys (2) ,Laurence Taconnat (1)(1) University of Tours, CeRCA (UMR-CNRS 7295), France(2) Université of Poitiers, CeRCA (UMR-CNRS 7295), France(3) - Centre de Ressources pour la Cognition, France EFFECTS OF A PROGRAM OF COGNITIVE STIMULATION WITH LEISURE ACTIVITIES AND GAMES FOR ELDERLYIntroductionThe influence of leisure activities on everyday functioning is largely under investigated. Nevertheless, there are several relevant criteriaemerging from the literature that support the efficacy of cognitive interventions using leisure activities (Kelly et al., 2014; Tesky et al.,2011; Tranter & Koutstaal, 2008). This study investigates the impact of a method of cognitive training with leisure activities like games onthe cognitive functioning of older adults without known cognitive impairment.Materials and MethodFourty people were included: twenty four people in a control group and sixteen participants in cognitive training groups. The interventionconsisted of 8 weekly sessions. We examined transfer and maintenance of intervention effects over executive functions (working memory,processing speed, shifting, updating, inhibition) and self-esteem.Results and ConclusionsResults revealed that compared to active controls, cognitive training improved performance on measures of executive function (workingmemory, processing speed, inhibition and updating) but also on self esteem. More research is required to determine which kind of leisureactivities can improve cognitive and everyday cerebral functioning and everyday well-being. Keywords • Aging, brain training, leisure activities, self-esteem
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