Age, Resources, and Emotion Regulation Need in Daily-Life Emotional Contexts.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Strengths and Vulnerabilities Integration model (Charles, 2010) suggests older adults experience difficulty regulating emotions with high-arousal negative stimuli due to decreases in resources. We investigate relationships among age, physical and cognitive resources, emotional experience, and perceived emotion regulation (ER) needs.

Methods

Participants aged 25-85 (N = 290) completed assessments of cognitive ability and physical health. In an experience sampling procedure (6x per day for 10 days), participants reported their momentary emotion experience and perceived need to regulate their emotions.

Results

Regardless of arousal level, negative emotion was associated with higher ER need and positive emotion was associated with lower ER need. This pro-he

SUBMITTER: Growney CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10292833 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature