دورية أكاديمية
Gender Differences in Cognitive Development in Cohorts of Young, Middle, and Older Adulthood Over 12 Years
| العنوان: | Gender Differences in Cognitive Development in Cohorts of Young, Middle, and Older Adulthood Over 12 Years |
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| المؤلفون: | Anstey, KJ, Ehrenfeld, L, Mortby, ME, Cherbuin, N, Peters, R, Kiely, KM, Eramudugolla, R, Huque, MH |
| المصدر: | urn:ISSN:0012-1649 ; urn:ISSN:1939-0599 ; Developmental Psychology, 57, 8, 1403-1410 |
| بيانات النشر: | American Psychological Association |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales): UNSWorks |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Clinical Research, Aging, 2.4 Surveillance and distribution, 2 Aetiology, 1.2 Psychological and socioeconomic processes, 1 Underpinning research, Mental health, 5 Gender Equality, Adult, Aged, Child, Cognition, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Short-Term, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Sex Factors, Young Adult, anzsrc-for: 1303 Specialist Studies in Education, anzsrc-for: 1701 Psychology, anzsrc-for: 1702 Cognitive Sciences |
| الوصف: | Understanding gender differences in human cognitive development may contribute to understanding the gender differences in outcomes in cognitive ageing. However, evaluation of this topic has been hindered by a lack of representative, longitudinal data from different aged cohorts measured on the same cognitive tests. Gender differences in cognitive abilities were evaluated in three population-based cohorts (baseline age-span 20 to 76, 52% female, 94% Caucasian, 5% Asian and 1% other ethnic background, baseline N = 7,485), initially drawn from the electoral role in Australia where voting is compulsory, that were assessed four times over 12 years on measures of verbal memory, processing speed, working memory, verbal ability, and reaction time. Linear mixed models showed that within each cohort, women had better verbal memory and men had better working memory and faster reaction times. Verbal ability and processing speed showed variable gender differences in the young and middle-aged cohorts but no difference in the oldest cohort. In young and middle age, there were no gender differences in rates of change in verbal memory, processing speed, reaction time, verbal ability, or working memory. In old age, the gender differences were only observed in rates of change in verbal memory. Women showed more verbal memory decline between the 8-year and 12-year follow-ups than men, despite retaining higher average memory performance than men. We conclude that from ages 20–76, gender differences in cognitive abilities are stable except for faster memory ageing among women in the eighth decade. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_78263Test; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/abb634f7-f964-4310-b472-973c46e5dfdc/downloadTest; https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001210Test |
| DOI: | 10.1037/dev0001210 |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001210Test http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_78263Test https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/abb634f7-f964-4310-b472-973c46e5dfdc/downloadTest |
| حقوق: | open access ; https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Test ; CC-BY-NC-ND ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0Test/ ; free_to_read ; ©American Psychological Association, 2021. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. Please do not copy or cite without author's permission. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/dev0001210Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.7DCBB9B1 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.1037/dev0001210 |
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