Emotional experience in everyday life across the adult life span.

By L. Carstensen, M. Pasupathi, Ulrich Mayr, J. Nesselroade. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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The influence of personality and life events on subjective well-being from a life span perspective (2009, background): “…from the model of selection, optimization, and compensation (Baltes & Baltes, 1990; see also Baltes, 1997), and socioemotional selectivity theory (Carstensen et al., 1999, 2000), old people seem to be better able not only to regulate emotions or to compensate age-related losses, but negative…”
The evolving concept of subjective well-being: The multifaceted nature of happiness. (2009, background): “For example, Carstensen et al. (2000) asked participants ranging in age from 18 to 94 years old to complete emotion reports multiple times a day.”
Emotion Regulation Across the Life Span: An Integrative Perspective Emphasizing Self-Regulation, Positive Affect, and Dyadic Processes (2003, background): “Consider, too, that older individuals have been shown to have greater capacity for complex emotional experiences that combine positive and negative feelings (Carstensen, Pasupathi, Mayr, & Nesselroade, 2000).”
PoKi: A Large Dataset of Poems by Children (2020, background): “Regarding arousal, adolescents are thought to experience more intense emotions (Carstensen et al., 2000; Gunnar et al., 2009; Somerville, 2013), perhaps implying heightened tension and stress.”
Emotional aging: recent findings and future trends. (2010, background): “In addition, older people appear to experience mixed emotions more often than younger adults and appear to be comfortable with the simultaneous experience of positive and negative emotions (Carstensen et al., 2000).”
Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI): A Model of Emotional Well-Being Across Adulthood (2010, neutral): “In one study, people ranging from 18 to 94 years old reported their positive and negative emotional experiences five random times a day over the course of a week (Carstensen et al., 2000).”
Age-related differences and change in positive and negative affect over 23 years. (2001, background): “Another study found that negative affect decreased from age 18 until about age 60 but did not change from age 60 to age 94 (Carstensen et al., 2000).”
Age differences in financial decision making: T he benefits of more experience and less negative emotions (2018, result): “Older participants had less negative emotions about financial decisions, which is in line with older adults' general tendency towards experiencing less negative emotions than younger adults (Carstensen et al., 2000; Charles et al., 2001).”
Social and Emotional Aging (2010, background): “But generally speaking, the closeness and importance of relationships is more important than network size in old age.”
Change in life satisfaction during adulthood: findings from the veterans affairs normative aging study. (2005, result): “Moreover, our findings are at variance with reports, including some of our own, which indicate that psychological well-being improves with age (Carstensen et al., 2000; Charles et al., 2001; Mroczek, 2001; Mroczek & Kolarz, 1998).”