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Testing Bidirectionality in Associations of Awareness of Age-Related Gains and Losses With Physical, Mental, and Cognitive Functioning Across 1 Year: The Role of Age.
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Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences . Dec2023, Vol. 78 Issue 12, p2026-2036. 11p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Objectives The bidirectionality between self-perceptions of aging and health-related outcomes may depend on age group. Therefore, we tested such bidirectionality among individuals in late midlife (50–64 years), young-old age (65-74 years), and old-old age (75+ years), taking advantage of the construct of Awareness of Age-Related Change (AARC) and its 2-dimensionality in terms of AARC-gains and AARC-losses. Various conceptualizations of physical, mental, and cognitive functioning were used as outcomes. Methods Data from 2 measurement occasions (2019 and 2020) from the UK PROTECT study for individuals in late midlife (N = 2,385), young-old age (N = 2,430), and old-old age (N = 539) were used. Data on self-reported functional difficulties, depression, anxiety, and performance on four computerized cognitive tasks (i.e. verbal reasoning, paired associate learning, self-ordered search, and digit span) providing a score for verbal reasoning and a score for working memory were analyzed using cross-lagged panel models. Results Across all 3 age groups, the bidirectional associations of AARC-gains with indicators of functioning were not significant, whereas higher AARC-losses significantly predicted slightly greater functional difficulties and higher depression and anxiety levels. Higher AARC-losses predicted slightly poorer Verbal Reasoning only in old-old age and poorer Working Memory predicted slightly higher AARC-losses only in young-old age. The remaining associations of AARC-losses with cognitive tasks were not statistically significant. Discussion In accordance with previous research targeting other indicators of self-perceptions of aging, this study supported a stronger impact of AARC-losses on indicators of physical functioning and mental health than vice versa from midlife to old-old age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- *COMPETENCY assessment (Law)
*EVALUATION of medical care
*PROBLEM solving
*FUNCTIONAL status
*AGE distribution
*SELF-perception
*SELF-evaluation
*TASK performance
*HEALTH literacy
*AGING
*RESEARCH funding
*MENTAL depression
*SHORT-term memory
*COGNITIVE testing
*ANXIETY
*STATISTICAL models
*EVALUATION
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10795014
- Volume :
- 78
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174108224
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad150