ArticleThe Psychiatric quarterly2019
Numeracy Skills and Self-Reported Mental Health in People Aging Well.
Article in The Psychiatric quarterly, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Levels and Correlates of Numeracy Skills in Lebanese Adults with Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Is the Sardinian Blue Zone the New Shangri-La for mental health? Evidence on depressive symptoms and its correlates in late adult life span.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- The role of cognitive reserve as mediator for addition and multiplication skills in late adulthood.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Widowhood and Health Status Among Chinese Older Adults: The Mediation Effects of Different Types of Support.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Arithmetic Errors in Financial Contexts in Parkinson's Disease.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Numeracy Skills, Cognitive Reserve, and Psychological Well-Being: What Relationship in Late Adult Lifespan?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between numerical accuracy (i.e, number comprehension and mental calculation) and self-reported depression in late adulthood. Whether social context (i.e., marital status) and very early cognitive decline symptoms impacted numerical performance was also examined. Ninety-four community-dwelling elderly participants were recruited in Sardinia, an Italian island characterized by increased longevity. All participants were presented a battery of tests and questionnaires assessing general cognitive efficiency, lifestyle, perceived physical health, numeracy, metacognitive and depressive responses. Number comprehension skills, time spent for gardening, metacognitive performance, and physical health predicted 26% of variance in CES-D index. Furthermore, married participants outperformed single/widowed ones in both number comprehension and mental calculation tasks. The same pattern of results was replicated when cognitively healthy controls were contrasted with participants with some signs of cognitive decline. The assessment of numeracy skills can be very informative in order to promote mental health and life quality in late adult span.
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