TY - JOUR
T1 - Age and Education Effects on a Novel Syntactic Assessment Battery for Elderly Adults
AU - Sung, Jee Eun
AU - Ahn, Heekyung
AU - Choi, Sujin
AU - Lee, Kiseop
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2019R1A2C1089280).
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2021 Sung, Ahn, Choi and Lee.
PY - 2021/6/18
Y1 - 2021/6/18
N2 - The purpose of this study was to delineate the properties of a novel syntactic assessment battery and to present descriptive data on normal elderly individuals. We administered the Syntactic Assessment Battery (hereinafter SAB) using a sentence-picture paradigm to 195 normal elderly adults in three age groups (60–69, 70–79, and 80–90) and five educational levels (No formal education, Elementary School Graduation, Middle School Graduation, High School Graduation, College Graduation and Above). A multiple linear regression model was applied to verify the age and education effects. A summary of results indicated that the SAB effectively detected age and education effects. People generally demonstrated worse performance as they aged but better performance as their educational levels increased. People with high school education and above generally demonstrated stronger performance on the test, although educational effects were not significantly different between elementary and middle school graduation groups. The current novel syntactic assessment battery can serve as a screening measure that sensitively detects age and education effects.
AB - The purpose of this study was to delineate the properties of a novel syntactic assessment battery and to present descriptive data on normal elderly individuals. We administered the Syntactic Assessment Battery (hereinafter SAB) using a sentence-picture paradigm to 195 normal elderly adults in three age groups (60–69, 70–79, and 80–90) and five educational levels (No formal education, Elementary School Graduation, Middle School Graduation, High School Graduation, College Graduation and Above). A multiple linear regression model was applied to verify the age and education effects. A summary of results indicated that the SAB effectively detected age and education effects. People generally demonstrated worse performance as they aged but better performance as their educational levels increased. People with high school education and above generally demonstrated stronger performance on the test, although educational effects were not significantly different between elementary and middle school graduation groups. The current novel syntactic assessment battery can serve as a screening measure that sensitively detects age and education effects.
KW - age effect
KW - education effect
KW - screening linguistic tool
KW - sentence comprehension
KW - syntactic assessment battery
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85109075701&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.639866
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.639866
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85109075701
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 12
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
M1 - 639866
ER -