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Gender Differences in the Association between Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Function in Later Life

Author(s) -

Jiyoung Lyu

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of geriatrics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2356-7414

pISSN - 2314-7121

DOI - 10.1155/2015/896876

Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , psychology , cognition , disadvantage , association (psychology) , demography , longitudinal study , developmental psychology , life course approach , early childhood , gerontology , medicine , population , psychiatry , pathology , sociology , political science , law , psychotherapist

Objectives. This study was aimed to explore the gender differences in the association between childhood socioeconomic status (SES) and cognitive function in later life. Methods. Using a nationally representative sample from the Health and Retirement Study, 5,544 females and 3,863 males were analyzed separately. Growth curve models were used to examine memory status and change in memory from 1998 to 2010. Results. The results showed that SES disadvantage in childhood was associated with lower memory at baseline controlling for adult SES and other covariates. In addition, cumulated disadvantage in SES was associated with poor memory in both genders. Statistically, the impact of cumulative SES on memory function at baseline was significantly different by gender. Discussion. These findings suggest that childhood SES has long-term effects on cognitive function among both men and women, and cumulative SES from childhood to adulthood may be more important for men than women with respect to their memory performance

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