National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore.
Soc Sci Med. 2018 Jul;209:76-85. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.05.026. Epub 2018 May 17.
Little is known about whether and how adult children's educational resources are associated with aging parents' cognitive changes over time. Using a nationally representative survey from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (2006-2014), the current study examined three related questions: whether adult children's education is independently associated with parents' latent trajectory classes of cognitive functioning; whether this association is explained by behavioral, psychological, and financial pathways; and whether the association varies by the gender of the child. Adult children's education is negatively associated with the unfavorable cognitive functioning trajectories of parents. Children's education predicts parents' higher perceived life satisfaction and upward financial transfers, which are some of the pathways through which children's education appears to prevent subsequent cognitive impairment in parents. Sons' education matters more for preventing the onset of dementia, and daughters' educational resources are linked to the prevention of cognitive decline among parents.
人们对于成年子女的教育资源是否以及如何与老年人的认知变化随时间而变化有关知之甚少。本研究使用韩国老龄化纵向研究（2006-2014 年）的全国代表性调查，探讨了三个相关问题：成年子女的教育是否与父母的认知功能潜在轨迹类别独立相关；这种关联是否可以通过行为、心理和财务途径来解释；以及这种关联是否因孩子的性别而异。成年子女的教育与父母不利的认知功能轨迹呈负相关。孩子的教育预示着父母更高的生活满意度和向上的财务转移，这是一些通过孩子的教育似乎可以防止父母随后认知障碍的途径。儿子的教育对预防痴呆症的发生更为重要，而女儿的教育资源与预防父母认知能力下降有关。
