ArticleSSM - population health2021
Adverse childhood circumstances and cognitive function in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: Lower level or faster decline?
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- Association of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Cognitive Health in Older Adults: Rush Memory and Aging Project.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry. Open science, education, and practice · 2026Article
- The double-burden of poverty on cognition hypothesis: a systematic review of the mechanisms of the effect of poverty in early life on the development and expression of cognition in adolescence and adulthood.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Review
- Place of Birth and Cognitive Function Among Older Americans: Findings From the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Protective factors for psychosocial outcomes following cumulative childhood adversity: systematic review.BJPsych open · 2023Review
- Place of Birth and Cognition among Older Americans: Findings from the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- Distinct domains of childhood disadvantage and cognitive performance among older Brazilians: Evidence from ELSI-Brazil.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- The influence of childhood adversities on mid to late cognitive function: From the perspective of life course.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
We examine the long-term relationship between childhood circumstances and cognitive aging. In particular, we differentiate the level of cognitive deficit from the rate of cognitive decline. Applying a linear mixed-effect model to three waves of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Surveys (CHARLS 2011, 2013, 2015) and matching cognitive outcomes to CHARLS Life History Survey (2014), we find that key domains of childhood circumstances, including family socioeconomic status (SES), neighborhood cohesion, friendship, and health conditions, are significantly associated with both the level of cognitive deficit and the rate of decline. In contrast, childhood neighborhood safety only affects the level of cognitive deficit. Childhood relationship with mother only affects the rate of cognitive decline. The effects of adverse childhood circumstances are generally larger on level of cognitive deficit than on rate of cognitive decline. Moreover, education plays a more important role in mediating the relationships compared to other later-life factors. These findings suggest that exposure to disadvantaged childhood circumstances can exacerbate cognitive deficit as well as cognitive decline over time, which may be partially ameliorated by educational attainment.
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