ArticleAging & mental health2024
Physical, cognitive, and social activities as mediators between personality and cognition: evidence from four prospective samples.
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- Personality as mechanism: An integrative model of five-factor model personality traits as a mechanism between earlier life factors and cognitive aging.Current opinion in psychology · 2025Review
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- DNA methylation age acceleration is associated with incident cognitive impairment in the health and retirement study.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Article
- Personality nuances and cognition: A multi-cohort and multi-method approach.Journal of psychiatric research · 2025Article
- Five-factor model personality traits and cognition in the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol sub-study of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe.International journal of personality psychology · 2025Article
- The mediational role of hearing acuity in the association between personality and memory: Evidence from the health and retirement study and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe present study examined how activity engagement mediates the association between personality and cognition.
methodsParticipants were middle-aged and older adults (Age range: 24-93 years;
resultsRandom-effect meta-analyses indicated that lower neuroticism and higher extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness were prospectively associated with better cognition. Most of these associations were partly mediated by greater engagement in physical and cognitive activities but not social activities. Physical activity accounted for 7% (neuroticism) to 50% (extraversion) and cognitive activity accounted for 14% (neuroticism) to 45% (extraversion) of the association with cognition.
conclusionThe present study provides replicable evidence that physical and cognitive activities partly mediate the prospective association between personality traits and cognitive functioning.
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