Effects of cognitive training and testing on intellectual efficacy beliefs in elderly adults
- Elderly adults (N = 116; average age = 73 years) were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups varying in the amount of training and testing on fluid intelligence tests. They were compared before and after treatment on self-efficacy and utility beliefs for intelligence tests and everyday competence. Although both ability training and extended retest practice resulted in significant gains in objective test performance (Baltes, Kliegl, & Dittmann-Kohli, 1988), only ability training resulted in positive changes in self-efficacy. However, these changes were restricted to testrelated self-efficacy. Training had no impact on perceived utility or on everyday self-efficacy beliefs. Implications of the results are discussed with regard to interventions to increase intellectual self-efficacy in elderly persons.
Author details: | Freya Dittmann-Kohli, Margie E. Lachmann, Reinhold KlieglORCiDGND, Paul B. Baltes |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-40351 |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (paper 157) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 1991 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2010/01/05 |
Source: | Journal of Gerontology 46 (1991) 4, S. 162-164, ISSN 0022-1422, DOI 10.1093/geronj/46.4.P162 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | The original publication is available at http://geronj.oxfordjournals.org/: Journal of Gerontology. - 46 (1991) Issue 4, p. 162-164 ISSN 0022-1422 DOI 10.1093/geronj/46.4.P162 |