Structure of fears at elderly people with moderate cognitive violations
Background. Importance of research is caused by increase in number of the population of the senior age group, increase of cognitive and emotional frustration at elderly people and risk of development of dementia. Aim. Studying of different types of fear at elderly persons with moderate cognitive violations. Method. The group of elderly persons with moderate cognitive violations (61 persons: 12 men and 49 women), aged from 60 till 75 years were surveyed. The questionnaire of hierarchical structure of actual fears of the personality was used, the complex of psychological tests was applied to comparison of indicators of fear to cognitive and emotional and personal data. Results. At the vast majority of the examined persons (93%) indicators of different types of fear were raised both in female, and in men’s subgroup. Only at 4 people of value of all types of fear were in norm limits. Leaders were existential (for health of members of the family of the patient), biological (fears of war), phobic (fears of insects, heights and depths) and social (crime) fears. Negative correlations of an indicator of total fear with random access memory and an index of short-term memory and positive - with aggression indicators according to Bass-Darki’s test and personal scales on SMIL are revealed. Conclusion. Thus, at elderly persons with moderate cognitive violations increase of indicators of fear is in most cases observed, the structure of the leading fears is defined. It is revealed that the fear is connected with cognitive functions, namely with random access memory, level of mental activity and emotional and personal disadaptation.