Aging and Emotion Regulation Tactics Across the Historical Events of 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Despite well-documented cognitive and physical declines with age, older adults tend to report higher emotional wellbeing than younger adults, even during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To understand this paradox, as well as investigate the effects of specific historical contexts, the current study examined age differences in emotion regulation related to the events of 2020 in the United States. We predicted that, due to older adults' theorized greater prioritization of hedonic goals and avoidance of arousal, older adults would report more positivity-upregulation and acceptance tactics than younger adults.

Research design and methods

81 younger adults (ages 18-25) and 85 older adults (age 55+) completed a retrospective survey on th

SUBMITTER: Wolfe HE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9384541 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature