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Self-report measures of prospective memory are reliable but not valid.
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Are self-report measures of prospective memory (ProM) reliable and valid? To examine this question, 240 undergraduate student volunteers completed several widely used self-report measures of ProM including the Prospective Memory Questionnaire (PMQ), the Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ), the Comprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memory (CAPM) questionnaire, self-reports of retrospective memory (RetM), objective measures of ProM and RetM, and measures of involvement in activities and events, memory strategies and aids use, personality and verbal intelligence. The results showed that both convergent and divergent validity of ProM self-reports are poor, even though we assessed ProM using a newly developed, reliable continuous measure. Further analyses showed that a substantial proportion of variability in ProM self-report scores was due to verbal intelligence, personality (conscientiousness, neuroticism), activities and event involvement (busyness), and use of memory strategies and aids. ProM self-reports have adequate reliability, but poor validity and should not be interpreted as reflecting ProM ability.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Uttl, B., & Kibreab, M.
- Affiliations
- Mount Royal University (CA)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- Venue
- Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
- Published
- 2011-03
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 57-68
- ISSN
- 1196-1961 (ISSN-L)
- 1878-7290
- OpenAlex
- W1975645279
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 39
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- FWCI
- 4.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- prospective memory, self-report measures, questionnaire validity, convergent validity, discriminant validity, reliability statistics, retrospective memory, verbal intelligence, conscientiousness, neuroticism
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Neuropsychological Tests, Surveys and Questionnaires, Self-Assessment, Reproducibility of Results, Self Report
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