IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/geronb/v65by2010i5p542-550.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Personality Associations With Self-Report, Performance, and Awareness of Functional Difficulties

Author

Listed:
  • Yana Suchy
  • Paula G. Williams
  • Matthew L. Kraybill
  • Emilie Franchow
  • Jonathan Butner

Abstract

Self-reports of the ability to engage in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) among older adults are known to be related to personality traits. However, self-reports are sometimes discrepant with performance-based IADL assessments, and little is known about personality associations with objective functionality or with poor insight about functional deficits. This study examined the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised profiles associated with (a) self-report of functional problems, (b) functional errors evidenced on performance-based IADL assessment, and (c) discrepancies between self-report and performance. Participants were 65 community-dwelling individuals ranging in age from 60 to 87 years. The results showed that self-report of IADL problems are associated with higher neuroticism and lower conscientiousness, actual IADL difficulties with higher neuroticism and lower agreeableness and openness to experience, underreporting of problems with higher conscientiousness, and overreporting of problems with higher extraversion and neuroticism. These relationships were partly mediated by age, education, and cognitive status. When unique personality associations with self-report and performance were examined, neuroticism and agreeableness, respectively, emerged as the strongest predictors. Copyright 2010, Oxford University Press.

Suggested Citation

  • Yana Suchy & Paula G. Williams & Matthew L. Kraybill & Emilie Franchow & Jonathan Butner, 2010. "Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Personality Associations With Self-Report, Performance, and Awareness of Functional Difficulties," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 65(5), pages 542-550.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:65b:y:2010:i:5:p:542-550
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/geronb/gbq037
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Antonio Taboada-Vazquez & Ruben Gonzalez-Rodriguez & Manuel Gandoy-Crego & Miguel Clemente, 2021. "Psychological Profile and Consumption of Healthcare Resources in Actively Employed People, Pre-Retirees, and Retirees," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-11, April.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:65b:y:2010:i:5:p:542-550. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.