Age and emotion regulation in daily life: Frequency, strategies, tactics, and effectiveness.

ABSTRACT: Models of aging and emotion hypothesize age differences in emotion regulation-in frequency, use of strategies, and/or effectiveness-but research to date has been mixed. In the current experience sampling study, younger, middle-aged, and older adults (N = 149), were prompted 5 times a day for 10 days to report on both general strategies (e.g., situation selection, cognitive change) and specific tactics. For each of the 5 strategies proposed by Gross's process model, tactics included those that introduced/increased positive aspects, avoided/decreased negative, and engaged with negative. Consistent with socioemotional selectivity theory, older adults reported less contra-hedonic motivation than younger, but this did not necessarily translate into age differences in regulation frequency

SUBMITTER: Livingstone KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050390 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature