Dear colleagues,
We are conducting a meta-analysis on the relation between beliefs that a person shares about his/her memory capacity and his/her memory performances. For this purpose, we are looking for any unpublished (or in press) manuscripts or data (as well as any doctoral dissertations) that contain a measure of the relationship between these variables.
We are interested in any measure that can be used in order to evaluate memory self-efficacy, either directly (Memory Self-efficacy Questionnaire, performance prediction, etc.) or indirectly ("Capacity" subscale or other memory self-efficacy scores of the Metamemory in Adulthood Questionnaire, "Frequency of Forgetting" or "General Rating" subscale of the Memory Functioning Questionnaire, and other subjective measures and self-assessment of memory such as self-reported measures of beliefs about memory capacities, frequency of memory failures, memory complaints, etc.). In any case, such measures must be associated with a memory performance assessment but the nature of the latter can be quite varied. Note that semantic tasks (e.g., fluency, general knowledge, vocabulary, object naming, etc.) can be considered as memory performance measures since they partially rely on semantic memory.
If you have such data, we would greatly appreciate if you could make them available to us. We need all available information about the sample and study design as well as a description of the memory self-efficacy measure(s) and memory performance task(s) and a correlation table with all dependent and independent variables of interest (if no correlation table is available, you can send any statistical test results).
If you want to contribute data to our meta-analysis, please send them to Marine Beaudoin (marine.beaudoin@univ-savoie.fr ).
Thank you very much for your cooperation!
Sincerely,
Marine Beaudoin
Olivier Desrichard
Laboratoire InterUniversitaire de Psychologie : Personnalité, Cognition,
Changement Social (LIP/PC2S)
Université de Savoie - BP 1104 - 73011 Chambéry Cedex (France)
Marine Beaudoin
Psychologue, Doctorante (Ph.D. student)
Laboratoire InterUniversitaire de Psychologie : Personnalité, Cognition, Changement Social (LIP/PC2S)
Université de Savoie - BP 1104 - 73011 Chambéry Cedex (France)
Tél / Phone : (+33 4) 79.75.91.24
