Cross-cultural comparison of implicit beliefs and self-referent beliefs about aging and memory performance
| dc.contributor.author | Aulakh, Harpreet Kaur | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Hultsch, David F. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-26T00:29:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-26T00:29:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Psychology | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study investigated the relationship between beliefs about memory and memory performance within a cross-cultural context. Self-referent and implicit beliefs were measured with the Personal Beliefs about Memory Questionnaire (PBMI) and the General Beliefs about Memory Questionnaire (GBMI), respectively (Lineweaver & Hertzog, in press). Memory performance was measured with the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test - Revised (BVMT) (Benton, 1990). Participants were 60 South Indian males recruited from India (30 younger adults and 30 older adults) and 60 Canadian males (30 younger adults and 30 older adults). Results indicated that the Indian participants generally held more positive self-referent beliefs and they believed that memory for other adults is better further into later life than the Canadians participants. Intelligence, as measured by the Culture Fair Intelligence Test, (CFIT; Cattell & Cattell, 1960) was found to be significantly better for the Canadians, thus, it was used as a covariate measure in the memory performance analysis. The results from the memory performance analysis did not show any significant differences between the Indians and Canadians. Thus, even though beliefs were significantly more positive for the Indian participants, memory performance did not differ between these groups. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/22026 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | |
| dc.title | Cross-cultural comparison of implicit beliefs and self-referent beliefs about aging and memory performance | |
| dc.type | Thesis |