Engagement in Cognitively Stimulating Activities Mediates the Relationship between Openness and Attention/Executive Functions, but Not Memory in Older Adults | Zendy

Giulia Mercuri | Zendy; Roee Holtzer | Zendy

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Engagement in Cognitively Stimulating Activities Mediates the Relationship between Openness and Attention/Executive Functions, but Not Memory in Older Adults

Author(s) -

Giulia Mercuri,

Roee Holtzer

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

archives of clinical neuropsychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909

H-Index - 98

eISSN - 1873-5843

pISSN - 0887-6177

DOI - 10.1093/arclin/acaa066

Subject(s) - openness to experience , psychology , mediation , executive functions , cognition , verbal memory , episodic memory , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , political science , law

Openness has a positive association with cognitive functioning and engagement in cognitively stimulating activities (CSA). Older adults who engage in more CSA tend to show greater preservation of their cognitive skills; thus, we examined whether: higher Openness would be associated with higher attention/executive functions (AEF) and verbal memory; and CSA would mediate the relationship between Openness and AEF, as well as verbal memory.

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