DO DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS MEDIATE SEGREGATION’S IMPACT ON COGNITIVE AGING IN OLDER MEXICAN AMERICANS?
Emily Morris, Jeremy Grant, Alexandra Clark, Darlingtina Esiaka, Kristine Ajrouch, Wassim Tarraf · 2023
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Living apart from other groups shapes how Mexican American elders age, and depression was suspected of carrying part of that effect. Emily Morris and five co-authors test the chain in 2023 with survey and census data on more than three thousand older adults, followed to a later wave. Three segregation measures and two outcomes, memory scores and mood, feed a mediation model.
Depression did not carry the effect. Living among one's own group, measured as low exposure to white neighbors, actually tracked better memory at both waves, while more depressive symptoms tracked worse memory on their own. The authors read a protective enclave effect in the pattern. Neighborhoods, they conclude, can shelter the aging mind even inside an unequal map.
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| CREATOR | Emily Morris, Jeremy Grant, Alexandra Clark, Darlingtina Esiaka, Kristine Ajrouch, Wassim Tarraf |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |