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Mella N, Grob E, Döll S, et al. Leisure Activities and Change in Cognitive Stability: A Multivariate Approach. Brain Sci. 2017;7(3)doi: 10.3390/brainsci7030027.
Mella, N., Grob, E., Döll, S., Ghisletta, P., & de Ribaupierre, A. (2017). Leisure Activities and Change in Cognitive Stability: A Multivariate Approach. Brain sciences, 7(3), . https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci7030027
Mella, Nathalie, et al. "Leisure Activities and Change in Cognitive Stability: A Multivariate Approach." Brain sciences vol. 7,3 (2017). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci7030027
Mella N, Grob E, Döll S, Ghisletta P, de Ribaupierre A. Leisure Activities and Change in Cognitive Stability: A Multivariate Approach. Brain Sci. 2017 Mar 01;7(3). doi: 10.3390/brainsci7030027. PMID: 28257047; PMCID: PMC5366826.
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Brain Sci. 2017 Mar 01;7(3). doi: 10.3390/brainsci7030027.

Leisure Activities and Change in Cognitive Stability: A Multivariate Approach.

Brain sciences

Nathalie Mella, Emmanuelle Grob, Salomé Döll, Paolo Ghisletta, Anik de Ribaupierre

Affiliations

  1. Cognitive aging lab, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. [email protected].
  2. Group of Developmental and Differential Psychology, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. [email protected].
  3. Methodology and Data Analysis Unit, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. [email protected].
  4. Swiss Distance Learning University, Brig 3900, Switzerland. [email protected].
  5. Cognitive aging lab, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. [email protected].
  6. Methodology and Data Analysis Unit, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. [email protected].
  7. Swiss Distance Learning University, Brig 3900, Switzerland. [email protected].
  8. LIVES-Overcoming vulnerability: Life course perspectives, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. [email protected].
  9. Group of Developmental and Differential Psychology, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. [email protected].
  10. LIVES-Overcoming vulnerability: Life course perspectives, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland. [email protected].

PMID: 28257047 PMCID: PMC5366826 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci7030027

Abstract

Aging is traditionally associated with cognitive decline, attested by slower reaction times and poorer performance in various cognitive tasks, but also by an increase in intraindividual variability (IIV) in cognitive performance. Results concerning how lifestyle activities protect from cognitive decline are mixed in the literature and all focused on how it affects mean performance. However, IIV has been proven to be an index more sensitive to age differences, and very little is known about the relationships between lifestyle activities and change in IIV in aging. This longitudinal study explores the association between frequency of physical, social, intellectual, artistic, or cultural activities and age-related change in various cognitive abilities, considering both mean performance and IIV. Ninety-six participants, aged 64-93 years, underwent a battery of cognitive tasks at four measurements over a seven-year period, and filled out a lifestyle activity questionnaire. Linear multilevel models were used to analyze the associations between change in cognitive performance and five types of activities. Results showed that the practice of leisure activities was more strongly associated with IIV than with mean performance, both when considering overall level and change in performance. Relationships with IIV were dependent of the cognitive tasks considered and overall results showed protective effects of cultural, physical and intellectual activities on IIV. These results underline the need for considering IIV in the study of age-related cognitive change.

Keywords: cognitive aging; intraindividual variability; leisure activities; longitudinal study

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