Age and Emotion in Adulthood

By D. Mroczek. 2001

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Subfields: Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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Teachers' Emotions and Teaching: A Review of the Literature and Directions for Future Research (2003, background): “life span research suggests that negative emotions decline during adulthood (Carstensen et al., 2000; Mroczek, 2001).”
Decline or improvement?: Age-related differences in facial expression recognition (2007, result): “Consistently with the theory, earlier studies examined age-related differences in daily emotional experiences using self-report questionnaires and found a decrease in negative emotions as well as maintenance of or increase in positive emotions (Carstensen and Charles, 1998; Mroczek, 2001).”
Self-Esteem Development Across the Lifespan (2005, background): “Establishing the robustness of this effect is important given inconsistent findings in the literature about whether emotional well-being and other aspects of adjustment drop during old age (Mroczek, 2001).”
Older worker, different actor? Linking age and emotional labor strategies (2010, background): “…affective experiences, emotion regulation motives, and emotion regulation ability change over the lifespan (Carstensen, 2006; Gross et al., 1997; Mroczek, 2001), we expect that age should be predictive of the emotional labor strategies that service employees utilize when interacting with…”
Happiness in the Face of Adversity: Reformulating the Dynamic and Modular Bases of Subjective Well-Being (2005, background): “Researchers were thus prompted to explain the “paradox of wellbeing” (Mroczek, 2001) in old age.”
The Role of Cognitive Control in Older Adults' Emotional Well-Being (2008, background): “For instance, some studies find an inverse curvilinear relationship with peak life satisfaction and emotional experience occurring in late adulthood and then declining somewhat in the oldest old (Mroczek, 2001; Mroczek & Spiro, 2005).”
Change in life satisfaction during adulthood: findings from the veterans affairs normative aging study. (2005, background): “Does psychological well-being change with age? Recent reports indicate that various aspects of well-being may change as we grow older (Carstensen, Isaacowitz, & Charles, 1999; Fingerman, 2002; Mroczek, 2001).”
Healthy and unhealthy emotion regulation: personality processes, individual differences, and life span development. (2004, result): “Second, this hypothesis is consistent with data that suggest that relative to younger adults, older adults report considerably less negative emotion (e.g., Helson & Klohnen, 1998; Mroczek, 2001).”
Aging and Attentional Biases for Emotional Faces (2003, unknown): “Indeed, in recent years—contrary to early expectations—evidence that emotional well-being increases with age has been mounting (Charles, Reynolds, & Gatz, 2001; Gross et al., 1997; Lawton, Kleban, & Dean, 1993; Mroczek, 2001; Mroczek & Kolarz, 1998; Weissman, Leaf, Bruce, & Florio, 1988).”
Who's Stressed? Distributions of Psychological Stress in the United States in Probability Samples from 1983, 2006, and 2009 (2012, result): “This interpretation is consistent with recent evidence that as people age, they focus less on negative emotions and savor positive aspects of life (Carstensen, Pasupathi, Mayr, & Nesselroade, 2000; Lockenhoof, Costa, & Lane, 2008; Mroczek, 2001).”
Health and Well–Being in the Young Old and Oldest Old (2002, background): “Findings vary depending whether analyses of age effect control for life circumstances such as poor health which may disadvantage older individuals (e.g., Kunzmann, Little, & Smith, 2000; Mroczek, 2001).”