Age Differences in Beliefs About Emotion Regulation Strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Age shifts in emotion regulation may be rooted in beliefs about different strategies. We test whether there are age differences in the beliefs people hold about specific emotion regulation strategies derived from the process model of emotion regulation and whether profiles of emotion beliefs vary by age.

Method

An adult life-span sample (N = 557) sorted 13 emotion regulation strategies either by (a) how effective the strategies would be or (b) how likely they would be to use them, in 15 negative emotion-eliciting situations.

Results

Younger adults ranked attentional and cognitive distraction more effective than older adults, and preferred avoidance, distraction, and rumination more (and attentional deployment less) than middle-aged and older adults. Latent

SUBMITTER: Livingstone KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7530492 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature