TY - JOUR
T1 - Job Strain and Late-Life Cognition
T2 - Findings From the Puerto Rican Elderly Health Conditions Study
AU - Vigoureux, Taylor F.D.
AU - Nelson, Monica E
AU - Andel, Ross
AU - Small, Brent J
AU - Dávila-Roman, Ana Luisa
AU - Crowe, Michael
PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - We examined associations between job strain and cognitive aging in a sample of older Puerto Ricans. Members of the Puerto Rican Elderly: Health Conditions study, aged 60-100 years at baseline, participated. Job strain indicators were quantified from O*NET ( = 1632) and a matrix of Job Content Questionnaire scores (JCQ; = 1467). Global cognition was assessed twice across 4 years. Controlling for age, sex, depressive symptoms, financial problems, hypertension, diabetes, childhood economic hardship, low job control and high job strain were consistently associated with greater cognitive decline. Adding education attenuated these associations. High education strengthened the JCQ job control-cognitive change link. Low job control and high job strain may accelerate cognitive aging in this population. However, it may be more difficult to disentangle the intersecting roles of education and job strain in cognitive aging among older Puerto Ricans relative to older adults from contiguous United States or Europe.
AB - We examined associations between job strain and cognitive aging in a sample of older Puerto Ricans. Members of the Puerto Rican Elderly: Health Conditions study, aged 60-100 years at baseline, participated. Job strain indicators were quantified from O*NET ( = 1632) and a matrix of Job Content Questionnaire scores (JCQ; = 1467). Global cognition was assessed twice across 4 years. Controlling for age, sex, depressive symptoms, financial problems, hypertension, diabetes, childhood economic hardship, low job control and high job strain were consistently associated with greater cognitive decline. Adding education attenuated these associations. High education strengthened the JCQ job control-cognitive change link. Low job control and high job strain may accelerate cognitive aging in this population. However, it may be more difficult to disentangle the intersecting roles of education and job strain in cognitive aging among older Puerto Ricans relative to older adults from contiguous United States or Europe.
KW - Puerto Rico; cognition; job strain; older adults
U2 - 10.1177/0898264320977329
DO - 10.1177/0898264320977329
M3 - Article
SN - 0898-2643
VL - 33
SP - 273
EP - 284
JO - Journal of Aging and Health
JF - Journal of Aging and Health
ER -