Meghan Is Conducting a Seminar in Her Office on the Importance

question 136

Multiple Choice

Meghan is conducting a seminar in her office on the importance of investing time in leisure activities. She explains that a lot of research has been conducted on the importance of leisure activities and that the research findings indicate that middle-aged adults need to make some changes to their current lifestyle. Which of the following research findings would Meghan most likely mention in her seminar?

• A) If an adult develops leisure activities that can be continued into retirement, the transition from work to retirement will be highly stressful.
• B) When middle-aged adults engage in active leisure pursuits, they show a lower level of cognitive performance in late adulthood.
• C) When those who had worked in occupations with fewer cognitive challenges prior to retirement engaged in physical and cognitive leisure activities during retirement, they showed less cognitive decline.
• D) It has been observed that after individuals experienced stressful events, if they engaged in more leisure time than usual on those days, the leisure time seldom helped improve their moods.

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Definitions:

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