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{"title":"Measuring Subjective Vitality and Depletion in Older People from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective: A Dual Country Study.","authors":"James Dawe, Elisa Cavicchiolo, Tommaso Palombi, Christina M Frederick, Andrea Chirico, Fabio Lucidi, Fabio Alivernini","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2530808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2025.2530808","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the global older population grows, research increasingly focuses on their well-being and quality of life, aspects that are often impacted by a perceived loss of energy and fatigue. To describe individuals' energy dynamics, Self-Determination Theory (SDT) has recently proposed a dual-process model based on two constructs: Subjective Vitality and Depletion. The present study aims to validate the Subjective Vitality/Depletion Scale (SVDS), an instrument based on this model. A sample of 726 older adults (over 65) from two countries, USA and Italy (M_age = 72.57, SD_age = 6.49), completed the SVDS, the Big Five Inventory 2 - Extra Short Form (BFI-2-XS), the 12-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12), and the Godin-Shephard Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire (GSLTPAQ). Confirmatory factor analyses of the SVDS support the SDT hypothesis that Subjective Vitality and Depletion are two distinct, yet related constructs. Full measurement invariance for the scale was achieved across gender and age subgroups, while partial scalar invariance was established across different countries, suggesting some specific influence of cultural factors. Correlations with BFI-2-XS, SF-12, and GSLTPAQ support the SVDS validity. The study provided evidence that the SVDS based on SDT is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing Subjective Vitality and Depletion among older individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144689691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Protective Effects of Cedrol on Aging-Induced Cognitive Impairment in Rats.","authors":"Fatemeh Ghorbani, Mohammad Amin Forqani, Mahmoud Hosseini, Fatemeh Forouzanfar","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2526998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2025.2526998","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Aging is a gradual alteration in cells and tissues' homeostasis mechanisms. Oxidative stress is an important contributor to aging. This study investigated the effect of cedrol a natural sesquiterpene on rats' memory and oxidative stress markers including malondialdehyde (MDA) and total thiol levels in the hippocampus, cortex, liver, heart, and kidneys of rats and their liver enzymes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Twenty-month-old rats were divided into three groups: cedrol 10 mg/kg, cedrol 5 mg/Kg, and saline treatment for 30 consecutive days. A passive avoidance test was performed in the last 3 days. A group of young 8-week rats was also treated with saline as the control group.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The performance of old rats in passive avoidance test memory was impaired compared to young rats. Old rats had increased levels of MDA and decreased total thiol in mentioned tissues compared to young rats. Besides, the AST and ALT liver enzyme levels were higher in old than young rats. Administration of cedrol in old rats improved their performance in the passive avoidance test, decreased the level of MDA, increased total thiol levels, and decreased AST and ALT liver enzymes.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Based on the results, cedrol may probably alleviate aging consequences in rats by reducing oxidative stress.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144590808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding Age-Related Interference in Cognitive-Motor Dual-Task Performance: A Novel Approach.","authors":"Béraud-Peigné Néva, Perrot Alexandra, Maquestiaux François, Maillot Pauline","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2025.2528580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2025.2528580","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Cognitive tasks in dual-task (DT) tests can be either driven mainly by the environmental demands (an\" environment-driven\" mode of control) or guided mainly by the individual (a \"self-generated\" mode of control). Two new DT tests were conducted to determine the effect of cognitive task types (self-generated vs. environment-driven) on cognitive and motor interference in DT.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An exploratory study was conducted with 17 older adults (OLD) and 15 adults (YOUNG) who completed three single-task (ST) tests - motor, cognitive environment-driven, cognitive self-generated - and 2 DT tests. Cognitive and motor DT Effect (DTE) were calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The self-generated DTE was greater in the motor task than in cognitive tasks, especially for the OLD group. There was no difference for the environment-driven DTE. In the motor task, the self-generated task created more interference than the environment-driven task for all groups, but this was not the case for the cognitive task.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Some ideas were devised for creating interference-efficient tests, like using cognitive self-generated and motor complex tasks. The study confirmed previous results on gait tasks with new information on motor complex tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144567359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Age Difference on the Spatial Scale of Object Categorization.","authors":"Muriel Boucart, Quentin Lenoble, Carole Peyrin","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2435779","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2435779","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>As the elderly population is growing worldwide and communication is increasingly relayed by visual interfaces, identifying age-related changes in the visual perception of complex stimuli is critical. We examined the effect of spatial frequency filtering on object categorization in young (mean 25 years) and older (mean 65 years) participants.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The stimuli used were low spatial frequency (LSF, cutoff 8 cpi) or high spatial frequency (HSF, cutoff 24 cpi) images of objects of various categories, and hybrid images composed of a LSF object superimposed on a HSF object from a different semantic category. Participants were asked to press a key when they detected an object from a specified category (e.g., animal).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Young participants categorized efficiently LSF and HSF images, and exhibited a bias towards the HSF component of hybrid images. Older participants showed a better performance on LSF than on HSF images and exhibited a strong bias towards the LSF component of hybrid image.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results show that LSF are better preserved than HSF in older people. The greater interference of LSF than HSF in older than in young adults suggests that LSF are available earlier than HSF in older people.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"526-537"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142754921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of Age and Education on Discourse Cohesion.","authors":"Viktória Kevická, Jana Marková, Dana Buntová","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2409590","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2409590","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Several studies have proven the presence of cohesion difficulties in neurogenic communication disorders. However, we still have very little information about discourse cohesion in the intact adult population and the factors that influence it. The aim of the present study is to provide additional information on this topic and to assess the effect of age and education on discourse cohesion.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>One hundred and eighty-two healthy Slovak-speaking adult participants were divided into three age groups and three education groups were asked to tell Cinderella's story. The cohesion of the obtained discourse samples was evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our study indicates no significant effect of age. However, an increasing tendency of the occurrence of cohesive tie errors with increasing age was described. Education, on the other hand, turned out to be a statistically significant factor and had an impact on the overall use of cohesive ties as well as the use of referential pronouns.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our findings suggest that monitoring the influence of education when creating normative data for discourse cohesion is more important than monitoring the effect of age.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"477-491"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142497755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Association Between Pain and Physical Frailty Among Older Adults in India: Depression and Insomnia as Mediators.","authors":"T Muhammad, Manacy Pai, Waad Ali","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2429314","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2429314","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To investigate the association between body pain and physical frailty among older adults in India and to examine whether this association is mediated by symptoms of depression and insomnia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were obtained from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India, comprising 31,464 adults aged 60 and older. Physical frailty was assessed using a modified version of the frailty phenotype developed by Fried and colleagues. Multivariable logistic regression was used to analyze associations, and the Karlson-Holm-Breen method was employed to evaluate mediation effects.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The prevalence of frailty was 30.65%, with women showing a higher prevalence than men (33.16% vs. 27.85%). Older adults experiencing body pain had increased odds of frailty (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 1.17, 95% CI: 1.06-1.35). Depression (aOR: 1.70, 95% CI: 1.44-2.01) and insomnia symptoms (aOR: 1.58, 95% CI: 1.38-1.81) were independently associated with higher odds of frailty. Mediation analysis showed that depression mediated 8.4% of the association between pain and frailty in men and 6.11% in women. Insomnia symptoms mediated 11.47% of the association in men and 14.54% in women.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Body pain was significantly associated with a higher likelihood of frailty among older adults in India. Symptoms of depression and insomnia partially mediated this association, with a stronger mediating effect observed for insomnia in women. Inclusive health care strategies addressing pain, depression, and insomnia could help mitigate the risk of frailty in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"393-411"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142791395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain is Associated With Depressive Symptoms in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Independent of Physical Activity.","authors":"Eleonora Esposito, Italo Ribeiro Lemes, Paola Sinibaldi Salimei, Priscila Kalil Morelhão, Larissa Bragança Falcão Marques, Michael Douglas Silva Martins, Gobbi Cynthia, Marcia Rodrigues Franco, Rafael Zambelli Pinto","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2397322","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2397322","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Prevalence of chronic musculoskeletal pain and depressive symptoms in adults is high; however, whether there is an association between these conditions in older adults is unknown.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The aim of this study was to investigate the association of depressive symptoms with chronic musculoskeletal pain, and specifically with chronic LBP and knee osteoarthritis (OA), in community-dwelling older adults. In addition, we explored whether physical activity can mitigate these associations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional study design. A cross-sectional study design. Participants recruited were older adults (age ≥60 years) living in the community. Chronic musculoskeletal pain was assessed by specific questions regarding the presence of chronic LBP and knee OA. Depressive symptoms were assessed with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Multivariable regression model adjusted for potential confounders (i.e., age, sex, economic status, body composition, and physical activity) was used to investigate the association between chronic musculoskeletal pain and depressive symptoms. Separate analyses were also conducted for older adults with LBP and with knee OA.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 509 (69% women) older adults were recruited. The regression analysis showed that musculoskeletal pain was associated with higher depressive symptoms (<math><mi>β</mi></math> = 2.52, 95% CI: 0.50 to 4.54; p-value < .05) compared with older adults without chronic musculoskeletal pain. Similarly, in the fully adjusted model, which included physical activity, LBP was associated with higher depressive symptoms (<math><mi>β</mi></math> = 2.80, 95% CI: 0.82 to 4.79; p-value < .01). The association between knee OA and depressive symptoms was not statistically significant after adjusting for physical activity (<math><mi>β</mi></math> = 2.00, 95% CI: -0.13 to 4.13; p-value = .06).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Older adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain have higher depressive symptoms scores, when compared to those without musculoskeletal pain. Physical activity does not seem to influence this association.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"492-504"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142581675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unveiling Cognitive Health Disparities: A Gender Perspective on Aging in India.","authors":"C V Irshad, Deepak Kumar Behera, Umakant Dash","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2448099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2024.2448099","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The study examined the association of various socioeconomic, demographic, health risk behavior, and social capital factors with the cognitive health status of older adults in India.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI, 2017-18), wave-1 was used. Binary logistic regression was applied to explore the significant predictor variables of poor cognitive health status. Further, decomposition analysis was employed to explore the gender differences in cognitive health status.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results revealed that female older adults had a higher odds of poor cognitive health status than male older adults (aOR: 2.37; 99% CI: 1.97-2.85). Increasing years of age, not being in a marital union, lower levels of social capital, and the presence of health risk behavior increased the odds of poor cognitive health. Education had a protective effect against the decline in cognitive health. The decomposition analysis results indicated that the gender difference in educational attainment contributed largely to the gender inequality in poor cognitive health status.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results suggest that gender equality in educational attainment could reduce the gender difference in cognitive health among male and female older adults to a large extent.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":"51 4","pages":"552-567"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144324909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association Between Metabolic Disorders and Cognitive Domains in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.","authors":"Lys Gil Rodrigues Pedroso Anibal, Carolina Neves Freiria, Graziele Maria da Silva, Flávia Silva Arbex Borim, Tábatta Renata Pereira de Brito, Andréia de Oliveira Pain, Ivan Aprahamian, Marciane Milanski Ferreira, Ligiana Pires Corona","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2425236","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2425236","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>evaluate the association between Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) and cognitive performance (global and in each domain) in community-dwelling older adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>cross-sectional study with 544 participants (≥60 years). Cognition was assessed using the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument - Short (CASI-S), evaluating four domains: memory, orientation, executive function, recall. MetS was identified considering five components: abdominal obesity, diabetes, hypertriglyceridemia, low HDL, and hypertension. Mann-Whitney test and Poisson regression models adjusted for age and education were used to assess the differences in cognition scores.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Hypertensive participants had lower global cognition, and those with hypertriglyceridemia had lower memory scores; obese individuals reached lower executive function and higher recall scores. Diabetes was associated with worse recall in men, and low HDL to lower memory scores; hypertensive women had worse recall. In adjusted models, association between abdominal obesity, executive function and recall (total sample) remained significant (<i>p</i> = .003 and <i>p</i> = .048, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Global cognition was not associated to metabolic disorders, but obesity was associated to lower executive function and higher recall.</p><p><strong>Clinical implications: </strong>Assessing each cognitive domain may be more sensitive in subjects with MetS components, and interaction between components, sex and education also must be considered to establish adequate care strategies for the older adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"412-429"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142617551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Investigation of Non-Auditory Lexical Language Skills in Relation to Hearing Ability and Second Language Use in Older Adults.","authors":"Margreet Vogelzang","doi":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2432238","DOIUrl":"10.1080/0361073X.2024.2432238","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explored how age-related hearing loss and second language use relate to non-auditory lexical language abilities in 74 older adults (mean age 63; range 50-73). Participants completed a cognitive task (backwards digit span) and two lexical tasks: a verbal fluency task, which has a stronger cognitive component, and a vocabulary task, which has a lesser cognitive component. Our findings suggest that fundamental language skills are distinct from perceptual difficulties - at least in a lexical task with a lesser cognitive component. In the lexical task with a stronger cognitive component, we found evidence for a complex relation between age-related hearing loss and the frequency of second language use.</p>","PeriodicalId":12240,"journal":{"name":"Experimental Aging Research","volume":" ","pages":"430-443"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142767613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}