Exposure to the troubles in Northern Ireland, memory functioning, and social activity engagement: results from NICOLA.
We investigated the potential impact of a cohort traumatic exposure, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, on memory functioning in later life, and the potential moderating effect of social activity engagement. Using data from 6571 participants aged 60 + in the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudin...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Ageing Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 1099 - 1110 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=160646055&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 160646055 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 16139372 3RAL jtl: European Journal of Ageing issn: 16139372 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2022 vid: 19 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 160646055 10.1007/s10433-022-00683-5 ppf: 1099 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 567KB tig: atl: Exposure to the troubles in Northern Ireland, memory functioning, and social activity engagement: results from NICOLA. aug: au: McHugh Power, Joanna E Feeney, Joanne Fowler, Elizabeth McMichael, Alan J. Hyland, Philip Lawlor, Brian A. Cruise, Sharon Potter, Claire Young, Ian McGuinness, Bernadette Kee, Frank affil: Department of Psychology, Maynooth University, Education House, Co Kildare, Republic of Ireland Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland School of Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland su: Ireland Mental health Memory Social participation Violence Cognition Post-traumatic stress disorder Old age Wounds & injuries Dementia risk factors Structural equation modeling Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Research funding Data analysis software Longitudinal method sug: subj: Mental health Memory Social participation Violence Cognition Post-traumatic stress disorder Old age Ireland Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) Wounds & injuries Dementia risk factors Structural equation modeling Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Research funding Data analysis software Longitudinal method keyword: Cognitive ageing Cohort studies Structural equation modelling Traumatic exposure Cognitive ageing Cohort studies Structural equation modelling Traumatic exposure ab: We investigated the potential impact of a cohort traumatic exposure, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, on memory functioning in later life, and the potential moderating effect of social activity engagement. Using data from 6571 participants aged 60 + in the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA) cohort, we used a structural equation modelling framework to explore associations between traumatic exposure during the Troubles and memory functioning. As expected, social activity engagement was positively associated with memory functioning, β =.102. Traumatic exposure was also positively associated with memory functioning, β =.053. This association was stronger at low levels of social activity engagement; among those with higher levels, there was little association, interaction β = − 0.054. The positive association between traumatic exposure during the Troubles and memory functioning was not moderated by the age at which the exposures occurred (based on analysis of a subsample with available data), interaction β = − 0.015. We conclude that superior memory functioning was associated with higher levels of traumatic exposure during the Troubles, particularly among those with lower levels of social activity engagement, and regardless of the age at which the exposures occurred. Future longitudinal analyses are required to build on these results, which potentially have implications for life-course epidemiology, in relation to critical periods for traumatising experiences. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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