Table 4. Moderating role of education in the relationship between leisure activities and cognitive function. DV: MMSE R2 R2 changes at stepp at final Step 1 18* * *_ Male (=1) 22* 17 Age -.22* * * -. 19* * Step 2 44*** 26** * Education 45** * 43* * * Working activities -.02 107 Leisure activities (1) TV, radio, newspapers 06 - 02 2) domestic chores -. 11 - 04 3) exercise, recreation -.03 - 02 4) religious activity -.09 04 (5) activities using new technologies -.03 .07 6) social activities 13* * 12* 7) cinema, theater, play 04 - 03 8) craft, gardening, knitting, etc. 15* .14* (9) looking after grandchildren, etc. 08 .04 (10) voluntary work 03 07 (11) artistic activities - 09 - 06 (13)a journey lasting several days 06 07 (14) reading books -.01 .01 (15) pet care -.04 - 08 (16) managing one's current accounts 10 .09 (17) Number of children -.08 -.04 Step 3 48***_04* (1) *Education 08 (2)*Education 21* * * (3) *Education 00 (4)*Education 03 (5) *Education -.10 (6)*Education -.13* (7)*Education 10 8)*Education -.06 (9) *Education -.02 (10)*Education -.13* (11)*Education 102 (13)*Education -.00 (14)* Education -.08 (15)*Education 07 (16)*Education -.05 (17)*Education 05 11 Note. . 12 *Variable measuring '(12) Exhibition, concerts, conferences' was omitted because of the normality problem. Results (i.e. significance of each variable) were not different depending on inclusion or exclusion of the variable. 13 *p<.05 r2="adjusted" b="standardized" coefficient. dv="dependent" variable mmse="Mini-mental" state examination. figure depicts the simple slopes for predicting score from leisure activities and education. among participants sd above mean on education relation between domestic chores social voluntary work was not significant ps>.05). In contrast, participants 1 SD below the mean on education showed significant relations between leisure activities and the MMSE score. Among them, domestic chores (b = -0.98, t = 3.98, p <.001 negatively predicted the mmse score and social activities t="2.71," p=".007)" voluntary work positively score. although interaction was not significant for crafting relations high- low-educated groups results of simple slope analysis are depicted in supplementary figure both showed positive between cognitive function but relation only low- educated older adults>