Psychological Development and Education ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (6): 769-777.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2022.06.02

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The Relationship between Executive Function and Processing Speed with Athletic Ability of the Community Elderly

LIU Yu1,2,3, SU Yanjie2,3, CAO Chunmei4, DING Yu2,4, FAN Yu5   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550025;
    2. School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871;
    3. Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing 100871;
    4. Division of Sports Science and Physical Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084;
    5. Department of Sociology, Peking University, Beijing 100871
  • Published:2022-11-29

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Abstract: With aging, the elderly’s athletic ability, executive function, and mental processing speed have declined to varying degrees. Existing studies mostly focus on walking and falling, and fail to integrate the relationship among the sub-components of athletic ability, mental processing speed, and executive function. This study tested the athletic ability, executive function and processing speed of 66 elderly people, and tested the four kinds of athletic ability through the classic paradigm (grip strength, 30-s Chair-Stand Test, Single Leg Station with Eye Closed, timed “Up & Go”) It is integrated with the sub-components of executive function (inhibition control, refresh function, shifting function, and working memory) and mental processing speed, and further explores the relationship between the elderly’s athletic ability and cognitive ability. The results found that, in the athletic ability, the performance of timed “Up & Go” is most closely related to executive function and processing speed, and the weight of processing speed is the largest in the predicting model of timed “Up & Go”. The results suggest that the intervention of cognitive function in the elderly may affect their basic athletic ability.

Key words: the elderly, executive function, processing speed, athletic ability

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  • B844
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