Job Strain and Late-Life Cognition: Findings From the Puerto Rican Elderly Health Conditions Study

Chronic stress at work, represented by job strain, has been associated with adverse late-life cognitive outcomes in the United States and Western Europe. We examined the relationship between job strain and change in cognition in a less affluent, Hispanic sample of adults aged 60-100 from mainland Pu...

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Published in:Innovation in aging 2020-12, Vol.4 (Supplement_1), p.364-364
Main Authors: Vigoureux, Taylor, Nelson, Monica, Andel, Ross, Small, Brent, Crowe, Michael, Davila, Ana Luisa, Drury, Taylor
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Language:English
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Summary:Chronic stress at work, represented by job strain, has been associated with adverse late-life cognitive outcomes in the United States and Western Europe. We examined the relationship between job strain and change in cognition in a less affluent, Hispanic sample of adults aged 60-100 from mainland Puerto Rico. Job strain indicators (i.e., job demands/job control/job strain) were quantified from (a) standardized occupation-based job strain scores from Karasek’s Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ; n=1102), and (b) O*Net variables forming factors of job demands and job control (n=1639). Occupation information, covariates, and cognition came from the Puerto Rican Elderly Health Conditions (PREHCO) Study conducted in 2002-2003, with cognition follow-up in 2006-2007. All analyses controlled for age, sex, baseline depressive symptoms, baseline financial problems, and childhood economic hardship. Across both operationalizations of job strain indicators, higher job control was associated with less decline in late-life cognition (JCQ: b=.18, p
ISSN:2399-5300
2399-5300
DOI:10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1173