The Current and Retrospective Cognitive Reserve (2CR) Survey and its relationship with cognitive and mood measures

The Current and Retrospective Cognitive Reserve (2CR) Survey and its relationship with cognitive and mood measures

The study, recently published by the European Journal of Ageing, developed a new survey for the assessment of cognitive reserve in adults and older age: the Current and Retrospective Cognitive Reserve (2CR) survey.
The 2CR assesses classical proxies of cognitive reserve (socio-economic status, engagement in leisure and social activities) as well as other key dimensions for promoting healthy aging (family engagement, religious/spiritual activity) both currently (in later adulthood) and retrospectively (as recalled from younger adulthood).
Its global factors (current and retrospective), and the related dimensions (socio-economic status, family engagement, leisure activity, social engagement, and religious/spiritual activity), were found associated, with some differences and peculiarities, to measures of fluid and crystallized intelligence, of working memory as well as of mood.
The 2CR, thus, represents a new reliable survey for assessing cognitive reserve within a multidimensional, “life stage-dependent” framework, as well as its relationship with the cognitive and psychological functioning of adults-older adults. It could be thus useful also for professionals working with adults aged 50 and over.

Authors: Erika Borella, Elena Carbone, Paolo Ghisletta, Stephen Aichele
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10433-023-00766-x