Social resources and emotional well-being in older adults with and without mild cognitive impairment.

IF 2.8 3区医学 Q3 GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY

Aging & Mental Health Pub Date : 2025-02-23 DOI:10.1080/13607863.2025.2465781

Claire M Growney, Tammy English

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Abstract

Objectives: Across adulthood close social partners are increasingly prioritized and socioemotional skills typically improve. We investigate whether age-related benefits in emotional well-being and social resources emerge in both cognitively normal (CN) older adults and older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and whether associations between well-being and social resources vary between these older groups and young adults.

Method: Young adults (aged 21-34, n = 75), CN older adults (aged 65-84, n = 93), and older adults with MCI (aged 65-84; n = 62) reported their emotional well-being. Participants and informants reported participants' social engagement and social quality. Using experience sampling (7x/day, nine days), participants reported quantity and quality of their daily interactions.

Results: Older adults with MCI had higher well-being than young adults, but lower well-being than CN older adults. Young adults generally had higher social engagement than both older adult groups and lower social quality than CN older adults. Social engagement and quality were both positively associated with well-being, especially among CN older adults.

Conclusion: Findings suggest older adults with MCI somewhat maintain age-related advantages in emotional well-being, but not social functioning. Older adults with MCI (and young adults) may also not be as effective in leveraging social resources to support their well-being.

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Aging & Mental Health 医学-精神病学

CiteScore

7.00

自引率

2.90%

发文量

176

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Aging & Mental Health provides a leading international forum for the rapidly expanding field which investigates the relationship between the aging process and mental health. The journal addresses the mental changes associated with normal and abnormal or pathological aging, as well as the psychological and psychiatric problems of the aging population. The journal also has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary and innovative approaches that explore new topics and methods. Aging & Mental Health covers the biological, psychological and social aspects of aging as they relate to mental health. In particular it encourages an integrated approach for examining various biopsychosocial processes and etiological factors associated with psychological changes in the elderly. It also emphasizes the various strategies, therapies and services which may be directed at improving the mental health of the elderly and their families. In this way the journal promotes a strong alliance among the theoretical, experimental and applied sciences across a range of issues affecting mental health and aging. The emphasis of the journal is on rigorous quantitative, and qualitative, research and, high quality innovative studies on emerging topics.