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Loneliness, Depressive Symptoms, and Cognitive Functioning Among U.S. Chinese Older Adults
Objective: Loneliness has been associated with cognitive functioning in the general older adult population. Previous studies further indicate that loneliness has a strong association with depressive symptoms and the two constructs can reinforce each other to diminish well-being. However, such relati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30038951 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721418778201 |
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description | Objective: Loneliness has been associated with cognitive functioning in the general older adult population. Previous studies further indicate that loneliness has a strong association with depressive symptoms and the two constructs can reinforce each other to diminish well-being. However, such relationships have not been examined in U.S. Chinese older adults. This study attempts to bridge this knowledge gap. Method: Data were drawn from a population-based study of 3,159 U.S. Chinese older adults in the Greater Chicago area. Stepwise multivariate regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between loneliness, depressive symptoms, and global cognitive functioning. Results: Loneliness was associated with poor global cognitive functioning in U.S. Chinese older adults, though the relationship became nonsignificant after adjustment for depressive symptoms. The interaction term between loneliness and cognitive functioning was statistically significant (p < .01). The findings further highlight the importance of age, education, number of children, number of people in household, and length of residence in the U.S. in cognitive functioning among U.S. Chinese older adults. Discussion: The study findings indicate that loneliness and depressive symptoms act together to influence cognitive functioning in U.S. Chinese older adults. Research and clinical implications of the findings are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-60508132018-07-23 Loneliness, Depressive Symptoms, and Cognitive Functioning Among U.S. Chinese Older Adults Kong, Dexia Davitt, Joan Dong, XinQi Gerontol Geriatr Med PINE Study-Psychological Wellbeing Objective: Loneliness has been associated with cognitive functioning in the general older adult population. Previous studies further indicate that loneliness has a strong association with depressive symptoms and the two constructs can reinforce each other to diminish well-being. However, such relationships have not been examined in U.S. Chinese older adults. This study attempts to bridge this knowledge gap. Method: Data were drawn from a population-based study of 3,159 U.S. Chinese older adults in the Greater Chicago area. Stepwise multivariate regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between loneliness, depressive symptoms, and global cognitive functioning. Results: Loneliness was associated with poor global cognitive functioning in U.S. Chinese older adults, though the relationship became nonsignificant after adjustment for depressive symptoms. The interaction term between loneliness and cognitive functioning was statistically significant (p < .01). The findings further highlight the importance of age, education, number of children, number of people in household, and length of residence in the U.S. in cognitive functioning among U.S. Chinese older adults. Discussion: The study findings indicate that loneliness and depressive symptoms act together to influence cognitive functioning in U.S. Chinese older adults. Research and clinical implications of the findings are discussed. SAGE Publications 2018-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6050813/ /pubmed/30038951 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721418778201 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | PINE Study-Psychological Wellbeing Kong, Dexia Davitt, Joan Dong, XinQi Loneliness, Depressive Symptoms, and Cognitive Functioning Among U.S. Chinese Older Adults |
title | Loneliness, Depressive Symptoms, and Cognitive Functioning Among U.S. Chinese
Older Adults |
title_full | Loneliness, Depressive Symptoms, and Cognitive Functioning Among U.S. Chinese
Older Adults |
title_fullStr | Loneliness, Depressive Symptoms, and Cognitive Functioning Among U.S. Chinese
Older Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Loneliness, Depressive Symptoms, and Cognitive Functioning Among U.S. Chinese
Older Adults |
title_short | Loneliness, Depressive Symptoms, and Cognitive Functioning Among U.S. Chinese
Older Adults |
title_sort | loneliness, depressive symptoms, and cognitive functioning among u.s. chinese
older adults |
topic | PINE Study-Psychological Wellbeing |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050813/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30038951 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721418778201 |
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