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标题：Metacognitive-strategy training promotes decision-making ability in older adults
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作者：Alessia Rosi ; Tomaso Vecchi ; Elena Cavallini 等
期刊名称：Open Psychology
电子版ISSN：2543-8883
出版年度：2019
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：200-214
DOI：10.1515/psych-2018-0014
摘要：Research on decision making and aging has shown that some decision-making skills decrease with age. Despite these age-related declines, no study has yet investigated the possibility of promoting improvements in decision-making skills in older adults. The present study was designed to address this gap in literature by examining the efficacy of a metacognitive-strategy decision-making training on practiced and non-practiced tasks. The training was based on the use of specific metacognitive principles and analytical strategies for promoting an analytical mode of thinking in the decision-making process. We examined 66 older adults (Mage= 67.52 years, SD = 5.38; age range 60-81) assigned to two training groups: a metacognitive-strategy decision-making training group and an active control group involved in a strategic memory intervention. Both training groups attended four 2-hour training sessions conducted once a week. Results showed that, after intervention, the decision-making training group improved their decision-making skills significantly more than the active control training group. Crucially, the positive effect of the training was evident in both practiced and non-practiced decision-making tasks. This is the first study investigating the efficacy of a decision-making training in older adults based on metacognitive and strategic principles.
关键词：aging ; metacognitive principles ; decision-making training ; generalization