Table 3.

Associations between leisure activity and cognitive ability from 75 to 85 years.

	Leisure activity 75	Leisure activity 80	Leisure activity 85	Digit symbol 75	Digit span 75	Digit symbol 80	Digit span 80	Digit symbol 85
Leisure activity 80	0.62***
Leisure activity 85	0.51***	0.50***
Digit symbol 75	0.28***	0.30***	0.19
Digit span 75	0.16***	0.23***	0.23*	0.45***
Digit symbol 80	0.15*	0.28***	0.31***	0.80***	0.43***
Digit span 80	0.23***	0.21***	0.24**	0.33***	0.60***	0.43***
Digit symbol 85	0.17*	0.06	0.18*	0.35***	0.53***	0.48***	0.54***
Digit span 85	0.22*	0.19*	0.19*	0.79***	0.43***	0.80***	0.42***	0.48***

N = 71–422. Leisure activity 75, 80, and 85 were computed by summing the 11 items which consistently loaded over 0.30 on the first unrotated component the PCA across all three ages (Table 2). *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.