Examination of the Common Cause Account in a Population-Based Longitudinal Study with Narrow Age Cohort Design | Zendy

Ola Sternäng | Zendy; Bert Jonsson | Zendy; Åke Wåhlin | Zendy; Lars Nyberg | Zendy; LarsGöran Nilsson | Zendy

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Examination of the Common Cause Account in a Population-Based Longitudinal Study with Narrow Age Cohort Design

Author(s) -

Ola Sternäng,

Bert Jonsson,

Åke Wåhlin,

Lars Nyberg,

LarsGöran Nilsson

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

gerontology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.397

H-Index - 94

eISSN - 1423-0003

pISSN - 0304-324X

DOI - 10.1159/000279754

Subject(s) - cohort study , longitudinal study , gerontology , cohort , medicine , demography , psychology , pathology , sociology

The common cause account suggests that there is a third factor causing aging effects in both sensory and cognitive functioning, hypothesized to be the integrity of the central nervous system [Lindenberger and Baltes; Psychol Aging 1994;9:339-355]. Importantly, the common cause account was developed based on cross-sectional data, which are especially biased by cohort effects. However, cohort effects can be controlled for in narrow age cohort (NAC) designs and by longitudinal examination. Findings from the few longitudinal studies that have studied the relation between age-related changes in sensory and cognitive functions are complex and give only partial support to the common cause account.

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