Memory Functioning Questionnaire: concurrent validity with memory performance and self-reported memory failures.

Concurrent validity of factor scores from the Memory Functioning Questionnaire (MFQ; Gilewski, Zelinski, & Schaie, in press) with memory performance was investigated in 2 studies. Study 1 involved 198 adults aged 55-85; Study 2, 89 adults aged 50-87. After effects of depression, education, and health were partialed out, MFQ scores predicted performance on laboratory memory tests in Study 1 and performance on clinical memory tests and diaries of memory failures over 2 weeks in Study 2.

Symptoms of psychological distress among caregivers of dementia patients.

Nine subscales of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) were examined for caregivers of dementia patients. Caregivers (N = 184) were divided into groups on the basis of age (less than or equal to 59 and 60+ ) and gender. Their scores were compared with age-matched norms.