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Relationships between cognitive test performance and everyday cognitive difficulties in multiple sclerosis
Author(s) -
Taylor Robert
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1990.tb00882.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , everyday life , test (biology) , multiple sclerosis , developmental psychology , cognitive test , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , paleontology , political science , law , biology
Cognitive test performance and rated everyday cognitive difficulties were compared in 29 subjects with multiple sclerosis. Modest relationships between test and questionnaire measures were found. The correlation between test and everyday measures was higher when informants' ratings of everyday problems were used rather than subjects' own ratings. The size of the discrepancy between subject and informant ratings was related to subjects' performance on tests considered sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction.