ArticlePsychology and aging2025
When and how perceived control buffers against cognitive declines: A moderated mediation analysis.
Article in Psychology and aging, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Coupled Changes in Daily Control Beliefs and Cognition: Variations by Education and Income.International journal of behavioral development · 2026Article
- Dynamic Benefits of Finding the Silver Lining: Secondary Control as a Buffer Against Declines in Well-Being During COVID-19.Motivation and emotion · 2026Article
- Perceived control buffers against variability in day-to-day cognition in midlife and older age.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Vision impairment and cognitive function in Chinese older adults with diabetes: multiple mediating effects of social participation and perceived control.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Daily association between perceived control and resolution of daily stressors strengthens across a decade of adulthood.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Patterns of Perceived Control That Buffer Against Cognitive Decline in Midlife and Old Age.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Characterizing Cognitive Dispersion and Its Correlates Across the Adult Lifespan in MIDUS.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Combinations of light, moderate, and vigorous physical activity in midlife and old age: implications for healthy cognitive aging.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Article
- Promoting teaching innovation among university teachers through AI literacy from the perspective of planned behavior: the moderating effects of three perceived supports.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Although perceived control is a well-established predictor of cognitive aging, less is known about how and under what developmental circumstances these beliefs about personal influence may protect against cognitive declines. Our study examined light physical activity (LPA) as an unexplored mechanism that may link changes in two facets of perceived control (personal mastery, perceived constraints) to longitudinal trajectories of cognitive functioning. We also examined whether mediated pathways were moderated by age (i.e., differed across the adult lifespan). We analyzed two-wave, 9-year data from the national Midlife in the United States Study (
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