Physical, cognitive, and social activities as mediators between personality and cognition: evidence from four prospective samples.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The present study examined how activity engagement mediates the association between personality and cognition.

Methods

Participants were middle-aged and older adults (Age range: 24-93 years; N > 16,000) from the Midlife in the United States Study, the Health and Retirement Study, the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study of Aging. In each sample, personality traits and demographic factors were assessed at baseline, engagement in cognitive, physical, and social activities was assessed in a second wave, and cognition was measured in a third wave, 8 to 20 years later.

Results

Random-effect meta-analyses indicated that lower neuroticism and higher extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness were prospectively associ

SUBMITTER: Stephan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11324381 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature