NINE-YEAR ASSOCIATION OF OPTIMISM AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING IN A COHORT OF AGING MEN
Victoria Marino, Samsuk Kim, Avron Spiro, Lewina Lee · 2023
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Victoria Marino and co-authors follow a group of aging men for nine years in a 2023 study of optimism and thinking skills. The men took part in a long study of veterans, and their optimism was scored in 1986, when they were about sixty years old on average. Their thinking was then tested in the early to mid nineteen nineties.
The tests covered general thinking, word recall, fluency with words, working memory, and skill with shapes and space. A more hopeful outlook did not track with general thinking scores. It did go with stronger word fluency and stronger recall of word lists soon after hearing them. The authors say hope may matter most for skills that rest on words, and may be a useful target for healthy aging.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Victoria Marino, Samsuk Kim, Avron Spiro, Lewina Lee |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |