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A Life Course Approach to the Development of Mental Skills

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: A wide variety of factors across the life course jointly influence cognitive and emotional development. Indeed, research from a variety of disciplines strongly suggests that cognition and mental health are intertwined across the life course, by their common antecedents and underlying physiology in development and in their interplay across adult and later life. We suggest that cognitive and socioemotional function fuse to form skills for life supporting self-regulation, competence, and quality of life that persist into later life through linked reciprocal processes of genetic influence, nurturing, schooling, work, and lifestyle.

Source: The Journals of Gerontology Series B

DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbr013

Authors: M. Richards, S. L. Hatch

Institutions: MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, Medical Research Council, King's College London

Language: English

Topic: Aging and Gerontology Research

Subfield: Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Wellcome Trust