DECISIONS, DECISIONS: CHARACTERIZING WORKERS' DAILY DECISION PROCESSES DURING LEISURE TIME

Abstract Decisions during adulthood set the foundation for healthy aging, but descriptions of healthy and unhealthy decision processes are missing. We extracted latent profiles of daily decision resources (energy and affect) and linked them to daily leisure activity. Diary data was collected from working adults (N=83; Mage=37 years) over the ten workdays (N=693). We identified three daily decision profiles consistent with the Decision Triangle – (1) logical (energetic, unemotional), (2) automatic (less energetic, unemotional), and (3) visceral (unenergetic, highly emotional) – and one additional profile, (4) mild visceral (moderately unenergetic, moderately emotional). Daily logical decision-making related to more “want” leisure activities (i.e., aligned with desires/interests) and the greatest variety in leisure activities. Automatic engaged in the most chores. Visceral engaged in the fewest social activities and least variety in leisure activities. Our findings advance understanding of specific decision processes during leisure, which may have consequences for health and well-being as a person ages.

Conclusion: Telephone fraud affects older adults in China at the upper rather than lower end of the socio-economic gradient, suggesting vulnerability from their use of digital technologies compared to those on the lower ladder of the socio-economic gradient.Findings highlight the need for fraud education of older adults with access to the digital broad band to reduce their risk for telephone fraud.

SESSION 1100 (SYMPOSIUM)
HEALTHY LEISURE: ADVANCING UNDERSTANDING OF LEISURE DECISIONS, ACTIVITIES, AND HEALTH CONSEQUENCES Chair: Claire Smith Co-Chair: Soomi Lee Discussant: Allison Bielak Leisure activities promote healthy aging, yet aging poses new challenges to engagement in active, meaningful, healthpromoting leisure.This stalemate wherein people need to but struggle to engage in healthy leisure as they age calls for further research describing what healthy leisure entails, decision processes predicting it, and long-term consequences over the lifespan.This symposium brings together five rigorous studies aimed at understanding diverse aspects of leisure -how adults make daily leisure decisions, the healthpromoting or demoting consequences of specific leisure activities as a person ages, and unique challenges faced by vulnerable populations.Paper 1 describes how daily energy and affect conjointly influence the types and variety of leisure activities midlife adults choose.Paper 2 identifies specific leisure activities that protect against cognitive decline in older adults, with consideration of vulnerable subgroups (illiterate, rural residents).Paper 3 investigates how seven leisure activities longitudinally predict cognitive impairment in older adults and differences by life course SES.Paper 4 identifies social interactions with friends as a key aspect of healthy leisure that longitudinally associates with cognitive function in older adults.Paper 5 focuses on a vulnerable population, older breast cancer survivors, and examines whether participating in cognitively stimulating leisure activities is associated with cognitive function (vs.non-cancer controls).These papers use different samples and datasets to describe the nature, causes, and consequences healthy leisure by specific population groups.The discussant, Dr. Allison Bielak will integrate key findings from these studies, discuss their theoretical and methodological contributions, and consider opportunities for future research.

DECISIONS, DECISIONS: CHARACTERIZING WORKERS' DAILY DECISION PROCESSES DURING LEISURE TIME
Claire Smith, and Soomi Lee, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States Decisions during adulthood set the foundation for healthy aging, but descriptions of healthy and unhealthy decision processes are missing.We extracted latent profiles of daily decision resources (energy and affect) and linked them to daily leisure activity.Diary data was collected from working adults (N=83; Mage=37 years) over the ten workdays (N=693).
We identified three daily decision profiles consistent with the Decision Triangle -(1) logical (energetic, unemotional), (2) automatic (less energetic, unemotional), and (3) visceral (unenergetic, highly emotional) -and one additional profile, (4) mild visceral (moderately unenergetic, moderately emotional).Daily logical decision-making related to more "want" leisure activities (i.e., aligned with desires/interests) and the greatest variety in leisure activities.Automatic engaged in the most chores.Visceral engaged in the fewest social activities and least variety in leisure activities.Our findings advance understanding of specific decision processes during leisure, which may have consequences for health and well-being as a person ages.Despite the burgeoning literature linking social integration and cognitive function, studies that focus on the potential cognitive benefits associated with friendships are limited.Using eight waves of nationally representative data from the Health and Retirement Study (1998-2012), we investigated whether two distinct forms of social interaction with friends-(1) getting together for a chat/social visit and (2) providing informal helping to friends-were associated with cognitive function (assessed with a modified version of the Telephone Interview for Cognition Status) among individuals aged 50 and older (person N = 29,951) over a 14-year observation period.Multilevel models revealed robust evidence for within-person linkages between both forms of social interaction with friends and better cognitive function.The study findings are discussed in the context of declining social interaction with one's friends reported over the past several decades in the United States, which are partly driven by increasing leisure trends characterized by in-home entertainment.

IMPACT OF LEISURE ACTIVITIES ON COGNITION IN OLDER BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS AND NONCANCER CONTROLS
Cassidy Doyle 1 , Brent Small 1 , Arielle Schwarzberg 1 , Tim Ahles 2 , Judith Carroll 3 , and Jeanne Mandelblatt 4 , 1. University of South Florida,Tampa,Florida,United States,2. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,New York,New York,United States,3. University of California,Los Angeles,Los Angeles,California,United States,4. Georgetown University,Washington,District of Columbia,United States Older adults represent the largest segment of cancer survivors and may be particularly susceptible to poor cognitive outcomes.This project examines the impact of leisure activities on cognitive performance in non-metastatic breast cancer survivors and healthy controls from the Thinking and Living with Cancer (TLC) Study.Additionally, this project investigates if genetic polymorphisms (APOE, COMT, BDNF) limit the benefits of leisure activities on cognitive performance.A battery of neuropsychological tests was used to create composite scores for learning and memory (LM) and attention, processing speed, and executive functioning (APE).Leisure activity participation was associated with better LM and APE composite scores.Age differences in LM and APE were not statistically significant among the most active participants.Regarding genetic polymorphisms, persons with APOE-ε4 exhibited greater cognitive performance benefits compared to non-ε4 carriers.Future research should examine the extent to which leisure activities can buffer longitudinal declines.

LEISURE PARTICIPATION AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AMONG HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS IN CHINA
Wei Zhang 1 , Qiushi Feng 2 , Joelle Fong 2 , and Huashuai Chen 3 , 1. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 2. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 3. Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan, China (People's Republic) Leisure participation is beneficial to various health outcomes.This study examined a comprehensive list of leisure activities in relation to incidence of cognitive impairment among healthy older adults (65+) in China.Using data from the 2002-2018 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we found that most of the leisure activities were protective of cognitive decline and three leisure activities (watching TV, doing housework, and playing cards/mah-jong) stood out as the most important ones.Additionally, our results revealed subgroup variations in the association between leisure participation and cognitive function: Leisure activities such as reading newspapers/books (not significant for the illiterate), gardening (not significant for the illiterate), and regular exercise (not significant for the rural residents) had different effects across different demographic social groups.Our findings suggest that intervention programs designed to prevent cognitive decline for older adults should consider subgroup and cultural variations in order to yield the best outcomes.

LEISURE ACTIVITIES AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT: HOW IS IT MODIFIED BY LIFE COURSE SES AND AGE AMONG CHINESE OLDER ADULTS? Rongjun Sun, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Recent research shows that not only do life course socioeconomic status and engaging in leisure activities have independent effects on cognitive performance of older adults, but also there are significant interaction effects between them.What is less clear is whether these effects, both separate and interactions between them, vary by age among older adults.We use data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey 2005-2014 and a Generalized Linear Mixed Model to examine these relationships.Results show that engaging in leisure activities is significantly associated with cognitive impairment even into very old ages (85+), although such associations are partially absorbed by life course SES.Furthermore, interaction effects of leisure activities and life course SES are also detected across all age groups, although they vary by specific activities.Virtually all interaction effects point to one direction: individuals of Sae Hwang Han 1 , Yee To Ng 2 , and Julia Tucker 3 , 1. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States, 2. UT Austin, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 3. The University of Texas at Austin, New Braunfels, Texas, United States