The Relationship between Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Objective and Subjective Memory in Older Age
While objective memory performance in older adults was primarily shown to be affected by education as indicator of life course socioeconomic conditions, other life course socioeconomic conditions seem to relate to subjective memory complaints. However, studies differ in which life course stages were...
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| author | Morgane Künzi Emilie Joly-Burra Sascha Zuber Maximilian Haas Doriana Tinello Chloé Da Silva Coelho Alexandra Hering Andreas Ihle Gianvito Laera Greta Mikneviciute Silvia Stringhini Bogdan Draganski Matthias Kliegel Nicola Ballhausen |
| author_facet | Morgane Künzi Emilie Joly-Burra Sascha Zuber Maximilian Haas Doriana Tinello Chloé Da Silva Coelho Alexandra Hering Andreas Ihle Gianvito Laera Greta Mikneviciute Silvia Stringhini Bogdan Draganski Matthias Kliegel Nicola Ballhausen |
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| description | While objective memory performance in older adults was primarily shown to be affected by education as indicator of life course socioeconomic conditions, other life course socioeconomic conditions seem to relate to subjective memory complaints. However, studies differ in which life course stages were investigated. Moreover, studies have explored these effects in an isolated way, but have not yet investigated their unique effect when considering several stages of the life course simultaneously. This study, therefore, examined the respective influence of socioeconomic conditions from childhood up to late-life on prospective memory (PM) performance as an objective indicator of everyday memory as well as on subjective memory complaints (SMC) in older age using structural equation modeling. Data came from two waves of the Vivre-Leben-Vivere aging study (<inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>993</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>M</mi><mrow><mi>a</mi><mi>g</mi><mi>e</mi></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mn>80.56</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>). The results indicate that only socioeconomic conditions in adulthood significantly predicted late-life PM performance. PM performance was also predicted by age and self-rated health. In contrast, SMC in older age were not predicted by socioeconomic conditions at any stage of the life course but were predicted by level of depression. In line with the cognitive reserve hypothesis, present results highlight the significance of education and occupation (adulthood socioeconomic conditions) for cognitive functioning in later life. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6ddc91fe949c4d1890a7f9a0d6c26e7c2023-11-21T08:49:18ZengMDPI AGBrain Sciences2076-34252021-01-011116110.3390/brainsci11010061The Relationship between Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Objective and Subjective Memory in Older AgeMorgane Künzi0Emilie Joly-Burra1Sascha Zuber2Maximilian Haas3Doriana Tinello4Chloé Da Silva Coelho5Alexandra Hering6Andreas Ihle7Gianvito Laera8Greta Mikneviciute9Silvia Stringhini10Bogdan Draganski11Matthias Kliegel12Nicola Ballhausen13Cognitive Aging Lab (CAL), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCognitive Aging Lab (CAL), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCognitive Aging Lab (CAL), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCognitive Aging Lab (CAL), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCognitive Aging Lab (CAL), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCognitive Aging Lab (CAL), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCentre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV), University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCentre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV), University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCognitive Aging Lab (CAL), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCognitive Aging Lab (CAL), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCenter for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 44, 1011 Lausanne, SwitzerlandLaboratory of Research in Neuroimaging (LREN), Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Champ de l’Air Building, Rue du Bugnon 21, 1011 Lausanne, SwitzerlandCognitive Aging Lab (CAL), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandCentre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV), University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 28, 1205 Geneva, SwitzerlandWhile objective memory performance in older adults was primarily shown to be affected by education as indicator of life course socioeconomic conditions, other life course socioeconomic conditions seem to relate to subjective memory complaints. However, studies differ in which life course stages were investigated. Moreover, studies have explored these effects in an isolated way, but have not yet investigated their unique effect when considering several stages of the life course simultaneously. This study, therefore, examined the respective influence of socioeconomic conditions from childhood up to late-life on prospective memory (PM) performance as an objective indicator of everyday memory as well as on subjective memory complaints (SMC) in older age using structural equation modeling. Data came from two waves of the Vivre-Leben-Vivere aging study (<inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>993</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>M</mi><mrow><mi>a</mi><mi>g</mi><mi>e</mi></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mn>80.56</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>). The results indicate that only socioeconomic conditions in adulthood significantly predicted late-life PM performance. PM performance was also predicted by age and self-rated health. In contrast, SMC in older age were not predicted by socioeconomic conditions at any stage of the life course but were predicted by level of depression. In line with the cognitive reserve hypothesis, present results highlight the significance of education and occupation (adulthood socioeconomic conditions) for cognitive functioning in later life.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/1/61life coursesocioeconomic conditionsprospective memorysubjective memory complaintsaging |
| spellingShingle | Morgane Künzi Emilie Joly-Burra Sascha Zuber Maximilian Haas Doriana Tinello Chloé Da Silva Coelho Alexandra Hering Andreas Ihle Gianvito Laera Greta Mikneviciute Silvia Stringhini Bogdan Draganski Matthias Kliegel Nicola Ballhausen The Relationship between Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Objective and Subjective Memory in Older Age Brain Sciences life course socioeconomic conditions prospective memory subjective memory complaints aging |
| title | The Relationship between Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Objective and Subjective Memory in Older Age |
| title_full | The Relationship between Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Objective and Subjective Memory in Older Age |
| title_fullStr | The Relationship between Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Objective and Subjective Memory in Older Age |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship between Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Objective and Subjective Memory in Older Age |
| title_short | The Relationship between Life Course Socioeconomic Conditions and Objective and Subjective Memory in Older Age |
| title_sort | relationship between life course socioeconomic conditions and objective and subjective memory in older age |
| topic | life course socioeconomic conditions prospective memory subjective memory complaints aging |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/1/61 |
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