Longitudinal Within-Person Associations Between Quality of Social Relations, Structure of Social Relations, and Cognitive Functioning in Older Age.
Minxia LuoPeter Adriaan EdelsbrunnerJelena Sophie SiebertMike MartinDamaris AschwandenPublished in: The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (2021)
Quality of social relations is a protective factor of cognitive aging. Additionally, responding to prior lower cognitive functioning, social network diversity reduced, but quality of social relations did not seem to change. Overall, this study suggested that social relations and cognitive functioning mutually influence each other, but different aspects of social relations (i.e., quality, structure) might have different directional associations with cognitive functioning.