Associations of intelligence across the life course with optimism and pessimism in older age.

ABSTRACT: Maintaining good cognitive function is important for successful aging, and it has been suggested recently that having and optimistic outlook may also be valuable. However few have studied the relationship between cognitive ability and dispositional optimism and pessimism in older age. It is unclear whether associations found previously between cognitive ability and pessimism in older age, are evident across the life course, and are consistent at different points in older age. In the present study we examined associations between dispositional optimism and pessimism measured in the eighth and ninth decade of life and childhood and older age cognitive ability, and lifetime change in cognitive ability. Participants were two independent narrow-age samples of older individuals with mean ages ab

SUBMITTER: Taylor AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5466381 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature