Gender differences in prospective memory in young and older adults

Riess, Marta; Janoszczyk, Katarzyna; Niedźwieńska, Agnieszka; Rendell, Peter G.

doi:10.18290/rpsych.2016.19.4-5en

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“…Men exhibit greater EBPM accuracy than women (Mmen=3.846 > Mwomen=3.036, t=2.791, p=0.004). This conclusion contradicts a recent study that reported no gender differences in young adult participants but showed women superior EBPM abilities in the elderly (4). It also contradicts earlier research that shows young adult women outperform men in EBPM performance (20).…”

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“…Previous research has found that there are individual variances in the types of gender that improve PM performance, even though it is still few in sum, and the results are not always consistent. The performance of Event-Based Prospective Memory (EBPM) is higher in women than men in the older adult group, while there is no difference in the young adult group (4). Then, previous research found that young adult males are better than women when it comes to Time-Based Prospective Memory (TBPM) performance (5).…”

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Event-Based Prospective Memory in Young Adults: The Role of Gender Differences

Anggraini,

Kusrohmaniah,

Yulianti

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Psychology, ISPsy 2023, 18-19 July 2023, Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia

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As many as 50-70% of memory problems in life originate from prospective memory. Prospective memory allows a person to recall and carry out previously planned intentions. Gender differences impact a person's prospective memory performance, although consistent findings have not been observed. This study aims to investigate gender differences in affecting memory performance in terms of event-based prospective memory types and the young adult population (college students). The study was conducted in a lab setting, with prospective memory measurements in the N-back Test. The statistical nonparametric Mann-Whitney U test is used in this study since the data is not normally distributed. The results on 69 participants (Mage=22.3, Nmen=13, Nwomen=56) showed significant differences between men and women in the performance of event-based prospective memory. In terms of accuracy, males outperform women in event-based prospective memory. Meanwhile, there was no discernible gender difference in response time performance. Nonetheless, men are acknowledged to be speedier than women. This finding has broad implications for future studies on gender differences and memory, and it is hoped that it will spur further in-depth investigation into the underlying factors.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Event-Based Prospective Memory in Young Adults: The Role of Gender Differences

Anggraini,

Kusrohmaniah,

Yulianti

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Psychology, ISPsy 2023, 18-19 July 2023, Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia

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“…PM performance and metacognitive control in PM tasks improve as school-age children grow up (Redshaw et al, 2018;Yang et al, 2011). On the contrary, female adults employ more strategies to memorize PM tasks (Penningroth & Scott, 2014) and show better PM performance than male adults (Palermo et al, 2016;Riess et al, 2016). Gender effect on PM has seldom been studied in typically developing children, and the results are mixed (Ceci & Bronfenbrenner, 1985;Cheie et al, 2021;Kliegel et al, 2013;Maylor & Logie, 2010;Yang, 2008).…”

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The effect of implementation intentions on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory in typically developing children

Yang

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2023

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Prospective memory (PM) refers to the ability to remember and complete planned tasks in the future, which relies on working memory (WM) for encoding and maintaining the intention. Implementation intention is a useful strategy for improving PM function in adults. Yet the effect of implementation intentions in children, and whether factors such as age, gender, and WM capacity could modulate its effect remains unclear. In this study, we examined the effect of implementation intentions on PM in 154 children at 7–11 years of age. The standard group received standard instructions on PM task, whereas the implementation intention group received additional PM instruction, which comprised the “if . . . then . . .” format and guided visual imagery of the PM scenario. Participants completed the computer-based PM tasks (tapping into focal event-, time-, and activity-based PM) and the WM tests. The results showed that the two groups exhibited similar focal event-, time-, and activity-based PM performance. Although age and gender did not modulate the effect of implementation intentions on PM, WM capacity moderated the implementation intention effect on time-based PM. Specifically, higher WM capacity predicted higher implementation intention benefit. These findings suggest that children with higher WM capacity may have higher chance to benefit from the implementation intention strategy.

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Gender Differences in Remembering about Things to Do Depend on Partnership Status

Niedźwieńska

Zielińska

2020

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Prospective memory, which is the ability to remember to do something in the future, is strongly linked to gender stereotypes. Women are expected to play a mnemonic role in romantic heterosexual couples and be successful in prospective memory tasks. Our purpose was to test whether stereotypical expectations manifest in gender differences in remembering to perform intended actions. Furthermore, we investigated whether these differences manifest only when participants are in a relationship with an other-gender partner which puts women under higher social pressure to be effective in prospective remembering. Forty Polish women (20 in relationship, 20 out of relationship) and 40 Polish men (18 in relationship, 22 out of relationship) were asked to send a SMS text to the experimenter every day for 7 consecutive days. As predicted, a female advantage in performance was found only for participants who were in a relationship, with no gender differences among those who were not. Of particular interest was that women who were in a relationship performed better compared to women without partners. In contrast, men performed worse if they were in a relationship compared to when they did not have a partner. Implications are discussed for how gender inequalities in prospective remembering can be tackled by educators in secondary schools and psychologists who conduct premarital workshops, as well as how they can be used by couple psychotherapists to deal with crises related to the division of labor in a couple.

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Gender differences in prospective memory in young and older adults

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Event-Based Prospective Memory in Young Adults: The Role of Gender Differences

Event-Based Prospective Memory in Young Adults: The Role of Gender Differences

The effect of implementation intentions on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory in typically developing children

Gender Differences in Remembering about Things to Do Depend on Partnership Status

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