“…Measuring psychological distress is notoriously difficult, given its multiple domains and definitions (Kivimaki & Steptoe, 2018), so most previous studies have relied on the assessment of particular aspects of psychological disturbance. Limited data have linked posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Edmondson, Kronish, Shaffer, Falzon, & Burg, 2013; Flatt, Gilsanz, Quesenberry, Albers, & Whitmer, 2018; Wang et al., 2016; Yaffe et al., 2010), anxiety (Batelaan, Seldenrijk, Bot, van Balkom, & Penninx, 2016; Yang et al., 2020), anger (Sutin, Stephan, & Terracciano, 2018), and hostility (Chida & Steptoe, 2009; Sutin et al., 2018) with dementia. Similarly, depression, which is often a consequence of stressful experiences and has been conceptualized as part of stress spectrum disorders (Correll et al., 2017; Ritchie et al., 2020; Wager‐Smith & Markou, 2011; Yu, Jung, Go, Park, & Ha, 2020), has also shown to increase the risk of dementia by twofold (Byers & Yaffe, 2011).…”