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