Gender matters: Productive social engagement and the subsequent cognitive changes among older adults.

Autor: Lee Y; Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, #07-01 AS8, 119260, Singapore. Electronic address: arileey@nus.edu.sg., Jean Yeung WJ; Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Block AS1, 11 Arts Link, 117570, Singapore.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Social science & medicine (1982) [Soc Sci Med] 2019 May; Vol. 229, pp. 87-95. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Aug 27.
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.08.024
Abstrakt: This study examines the relationships between productive social engagement and cognitive functioning trajectories of older adults in South Korea and how the nature of the relationships differs for men and women. We exploit data from a nationally representative longitudinal survey of South Korea from 2006 to 2014 and apply the Growth Mixture Modeling approach to disentangle health causation from health selection processes. We find that socially productive activities are associated with more favorable cognitive functioning trajectories, independent of an individual's baseline health and cognitive status. The odds of maintaining higher cognitive functioning are greater for men who had participated in socially productive activities on a monthly basis. Social engagement protects against rapid cognitive decline for women, particularly for those with lower education. Among men, social activities in friendship/alumni organizations are likely to help maintain good cognitive functioning in older age while for women with lower cognition, religious activities may protect against cognitive decline.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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