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Daily busyness

Daily busyness has been studied in 2 papers since 2022: 2 observational studies in people. The newest paper, Apr 14, 2023: “It's complicated: Executive functioning moderates impacts of daily busyness on everyday functioning in community-dwelling older adults”.

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“Frequency of PM failures was significantly predicted by Age, Busyness, and Routine, such that people who were younger and those with busier and less routine activities reported more frequent PM failures.”
The frequency of self-reported memory failures is influenced by everyday context across the lifespan: Implications for neuropsychology research and clinical practiceThe Clinical neuropsychologist2022doi:10.1080/13854046.2022.2112297

None of its findings points the other way.

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

Labs are independent when their papers share no last author and no institution.

  • 2 independent labs in 1 country
  • Funder: National Institute on Aging
  • Humans2

What did studies of Daily busyness find?

1

Studies of Daily busyness measured 1 outcome; the most studied are IADL task timeliness (1 study).

IADL task timeliness

downin humans1

1 study

  1. Daily busyness is linked with lower IADL task timeliness in humans.

    “across all participants (regardless of EF), high levels of daily busyness were associated with fewer tasks completed on time”

    Humans18 daysn = 52

    It's complicated: Executive functioning moderates impacts of daily busyness on everyday functioning in community-dwelling older adults

    Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS

What is Daily busyness linked with?

1

Studies link Daily busyness with 1 measure, most often prospective memory failures (1 study).

Prospective memory failures

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1 study

  1. Daily busyness is associated with prospective memory failures in humans.

    “Frequency of PM failures was significantly predicted by Age, Busyness, and Routine, such that people who were younger and those with busier and less routine activities reported more frequent PM failures.”

    Humansn = 902

    The frequency of self-reported memory failures is influenced by everyday context across the lifespan: Implications for neuropsychology research and clinical practice

    The Clinical neuropsychologist

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