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- The study examines the connections between social and emotional loneliness and cognitive abilities (both crystallized and fluid) in older adults, emphasizing a multidimensional perspective.
- While social loneliness didn’t predict crystallized intelligence, it showed a relationship with lower fluid intelligence when health factors were not considered.
- Interestingly, higher emotional loneliness was linked to better fluid intelligence, and increased social loneliness was associated with more cognitive failures in everyday life and negative lifestyle attitudes.
Article Abstract
Despite the fact that the literature suggests loneliness to undermine cognitive functioning in later life, no work has simultaneously examined the relationships between these constructs taking a multidimensional approach to the assessment of each. The present study explored relationships among social and emotional loneliness and both general crystallized (Gc) and general fluid (Gf) ability, as well as to several indices of everyday intellectual functioning in later life. Sequential regression analyses suggested that neither social nor emotional loneliness predicted Gc. However, only when eliminating health as a covariate was more social loneliness associated with lower scores for Gf. Surprisingly, more emotional loneliness was associated with higher scores for Gf. More social loneliness also predicted more everyday cognitive failures and with less positive lifestyle attitudes. These findings support a view of loneliness-cognition relationships in later life that reflects the multidimensional nature of each construct.
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