Lower Education and Reading and Writing Habits Are Associated With Poorer Oral Discourse Production in Typical Adults and Older Adults.
| Autor: | Malcorra BLC; Department of Linguistics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil., Wilson MA; Département de Réadaptation, Faculté de Médecine, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Réadaptation et Intégration Sociale (CIRRIS), Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada., Schilling LP; Brain Institute of Rio Grande do Sul, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil., Hübner LC; Department of Linguistics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.; National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brasília, Brazil. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2022 Mar 18; Vol. 13, pp. 740337. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Mar 18 (Print Publication: 2022). |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.740337 |
| Abstrakt: | During normal aging there is a decline in cognitive functions that includes deficits in oral discourse production. A higher level of education and more frequent reading and writing habits (RWH) might delay the onset of the cognitive decline during aging. This study aimed at investigating the effect of education and RWH on oral discourse production in older adults. Picture-based narratives were collected from 117 healthy adults, aged between 51 and 82 years (68.6 ± 6.38) with 0-20 years of formal education (10.1 ± 5.69). Measures of macro, microlinguistic and modalizations were computed and entered as dependent variables in hierarchical regression analyses that included age, education and RWH as regressors. Results revealed that higher education explained a better performance at the macrostructure and microstructure dimensions. Higher frequency of RWH explained the production of fewer modalizations. These results demonstrate the positive effect of education and RWH in oral discourse production in older adults. Therefore, higher attention should be given to these social factors. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2022 Malcorra, Wilson, Schilling and Hübner.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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