Links Between Daily Life and Laboratory Emotion Regulation Processes: The Role of Age and Cognitive Status.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study investigates how daily use of emotion regulation (ER) strategies predicts ER processes in the laboratory among young adults and cognitively diverse older adults.

Methods

Young adults (aged 21-34, n = 66), cognitively normal (CN) older adults (aged 70-83, n = 87), and older adults with researcher-defined mild cognitive impairment (MCI; aged 70-84; n = 58) completed an experience sampling procedure (7×/day for 9 days) reporting their distraction and reappraisal use in daily life. In a laboratory task inducing high-arousal negative emotion, they reported their (a) distraction and reappraisal use when instructed to reduce negative emotion and (b) ER success and perceptions when randomly assigned to regulate using distraction or reappraisal.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Growney CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11157623 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature