Short-term coupling associations between state loneliness and cognitive performance in daily life among older adults.
Jee Eun KangJennifer E Graham-EngelandLynn M MartireDavid M AlmeidaMartin John SliwinskiPublished in: The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (2024)
Findings suggest a prospective association between loneliness and cognitive performance, with higher daily loneliness negatively associated with cognitive performance on the same day and predicting worse performance the following day. Notably, within a single day, lower cognitive performance at a given moment predicted elevated loneliness later in the day. This highlights a complex, reciprocal relationship - loneliness predicting and being predicted by cognitive performance depending on timescale.
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