title: [Relationship between memory complaints and memory performance, mood and sociodemographic variables in young adults].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Neurological consultations due to memory complaints have increased in recent years in both older and younger people. Few investigations have studied the variables related to memory complaints in young adults.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To analyze, in a sample of young adults, the relationship between memory complaints and objective memory performance, depressive and anxiety symptoms, age, sex and level of studies.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included 582 healthy workers, without cognitive impairment, aged 22-64 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Word List and Family Scenes of Wechsler Memory Scale-III, Memory Failures of Everyday Questionnaire (MFE) and Goldberg Anxiety and Depression Scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We did not find any significant association between subjective assessment of memory and objective performance, both immediate and delayed in verbal and visual memory. Depression and anxiety had the highest correlation with MFE. The significant variables in the multiple regression analysis were: depression, with the largest effect size, age, college studies and sex.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In young adults, those which had a greater perception of daily forgetfulness were not those with lesser memory performance. The most important variables involved in memory complaints were depression and anxiety. Younger people, people with college education and men reported less memory complaints.
authors.affiliation: Madrid Salud. Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Centro de Prevencion del Deterioro Cognitivo, Madrid, Espana.
authors.forename: Mercedes
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Montenegro
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Montejo
authors.forename: M Dolores
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Claver-Martín
authors.forename: Ana Isabel
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Reinoso
authors.forename: M Emiliana
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: de Andrés-Montes
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Marín
authors.forename: Marcos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Llanero-Luque
authors.forename: Evelio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Huertas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D055815:Young Adult