2026-06-08T22:08:04Zhttps://docta.ucm.es/rest/oai/requestoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/128942025-10-28T10:07:33Zcom_20.500.14352_14col_20.500.14352_15
How cognitive reserve influences older adults’ cognitive state, executive functions and language comprehension: A structural equation model.
Delgado-Losada, María Luisa
Rubio Valdehita, Susana
López-Higes Sánchez, Ramón
Rodríguez-Rojo, Inmaculada Concepción
Prados-Atienza, José María
García-Cid, Sophie
Montenegro, Mercedes
159.943.7
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Older adults
Cognitive reserve
Cognitive status
Executive functions
Sentence comprehension
Older adults
Cognitive reserve
Cognitive status
Neuropsicología
Psicología cognitiva
6104.01 Procesos Cognitivos
Cognitive reserve has been defined as the individuals’ ability to tolerate age-related and neurodegenerative changes in the brain without developing clinical symptoms or signs of disease. Formal education, occupational attainment, and knowledge of other languages have been assessed as the most relevant factors determining cognitive reserve. The main objective of this study was to develop a structural equation model that reflects the direct influence of cognitive reserve on old adults’ general cognitive status and executive functioning, and indirectly on sentence comprehension performance through executive functions mediation. One hundred and fifty-eight Spanish-speaking older adults, cognitively intact, were assessed to obtain cognitive reserve data, general cognitive status, executive functioning (inhibitory control, working memory and cognitive flexibility), and sentence comprehension measures. High indicators of adjustment of the proposed model were obtained. The most related factors to cognitive reserve were education and occupational attainment. As we hypothesize, cognitive reserve had a higher direct significant relation to cognitive status and, in a lesser extent, to executive functioning. Participants‘ general cognitive status and executive function were high and directly related. Furthermore, cognitive reserve has an indirect positive relation to sentence comprehension via executive functions’ mediation
Ministerio de Economía y Competitivad
Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
Depto. de Psicología Experimental, Procesos Cognitivos y Logopedia
Depto. de Psicología Social, del Trabajo y Diferencial
Fac. de Psicología
TRUE
pub
2023-06-17T12:45:08Z
2023-06-17T12:45:08Z
2019-10
journal article
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12894
1872-6976
10.1016/j.archger.2019.05.016
spa
PSI2015-68793-C3-3-R)
FPU13/02064
restricted access
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