Publications by authors named "Ana I Agusti"
Studies that analyze the predictors of satisfaction with the health of the elderly are scarce. That is the reason why the objective of this study is to analyze whether the physical-psychological state, sports practice, and the use of socio-health resources are factors that predict satisfaction with health status in physically active elderly people. The Physical Activity and Quality of Life questionnaires were applied to a sample of 397 elderly people in this cross-sectional observational study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAutobiographical memory consists of a person's personal history and contributes to building a feeling of identity and continuity. Aging affects episodic autobiographical memory negatively, whereas semantic autobiographical memory is preserved or even enhanced in older adults. The study aim was to analyze whether these hypotheses continue to find support, or if there are differences when these memories are analyzed according to the components of life cycle retrieval.
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- Researchers investigated how emotional words and faces affect attention in young and older adults using a Stroop task.
- The study involved participants identifying happy or sad words presented over corresponding facial expressions, analyzing how these influenced each other.
- Results showed that while both age groups experienced interference, older adults struggled more with positive stimuli when not cued, unlike the younger group, which performed similarly on negative stimuli.