Reconocimiento emocional y memoria de rostros en adultos mayores institucionalizados y no institucionalizados con envejecimiento normal.

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2011-06-24

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Calzada Artiles, Ileana

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Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de las Villas

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The present investigation is a descriptive study carried out in Santa Clara, Villa Clara, from December 2010 to May 2011, having as objective to describe the particularities that present the Emotional Recognition and the Memory of Faces in institutionalized bigger adults and not institutionalized with normal aging. The sample was made by bigger 50 adults, understood in a range from 65 to 70 years of age. For the obtaining of the data three tests were applied: Mini Cognitive Exam (MEC), Cambridage Memory Test for Faces (Spanish Version) (CMTF), and the International FACE Dates Base. When analyzing the data statistical methods they were applied for that which the program SPSS was appealed 18.0 using a variance analysis multi varied by General Lineal Model procedure and to analyze the differences among the groups the Appearance of Hotelling. The results revealed so much deterioration in the emotional recognition as in the memory for faces, being this very accented one in the institutionalized bigger adults which presented a high significance level in both techniques. The emotions that presented very difficulty to be identified were the negatives in the following order: the fear, then the anger, disgust, sadness and neutral. In that referred to the recognition of the emotion happiness significant differences they were not evidenced.
The present investigation is a descriptive study carried out in Santa Clara, Villa Clara, from December 2010 to May 2011, having as objective to describe the particularities that present the Emotional Recognition and the Memory of Faces in institutionalized bigger adults and not institutionalized with normal aging. The sample was made by bigger 50 adults, understood in a range from 65 to 70 years of age. For the obtaining of the data three tests were applied: Mini Cognitive Exam (MEC), Cambridage Memory Test for Faces (Spanish Version) (CMTF), and the International FACE Dates Base. When analyzing the data statistical methods they were applied for that which the program SPSS was appealed 18.0 using a variance analysis multi varied by General Lineal Model procedure and to analyze the differences among the groups the Appearance of Hotelling. The results revealed so much deterioration in the emotional recognition as in the memory for faces, being this very accented one in the institutionalized bigger adults which presented a high significance level in both techniques. The emotions that presented very difficulty to be identified were the negatives in the following order: the fear, then the anger, disgust, sadness and neutral. In that referred to the recognition of the emotion happiness significant differences they were not evidenced.

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Adulto Mayor, Reconocimiento Emocional, Memoria de Rostros, Bigger Adults, Emotional Recognition, Memory of Faces

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