Age-related differences and change in positive and negative affect over 23 years.

By S. Charles, C. Reynolds, M. Gatz. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2001

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Subfields: Health, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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Letters of Gratitude: Further Evidence for Author Benefits (2012, background): “Recent literature suggests that self-directed activity can improve well-being (Sheldon 2008; Seligman et al. 2005; Charles et al. 2001; Gloaguen et al. 1998).”
Words of wisdom: language use over the life span. (2003, background): “Even developmental studies wherein the same participants have been repeatedly measured over the course of their lives (e.g., Charles et al., 2001; Vaillant, Meyer, Mukamal, & Soldz, 1998) must deal with the same problem of the collective evolution of a culture—or at least cultural shifts in the la”
Can nudges be transparent and yet effective (2018, neutral): “The finding that experiencing negative emotions decreases with age is known in the literature (e.g. Charles et al., 2001).”
The Role of Cognitive Control in Older Adults' Emotional Well-Being (2008, background): “However, a 23-year longitudinal study found decreases in negative affect across the life span in four different cohorts (Charles et al., 2001).”
Age-Related Differences in Responses to Emotional Advertisements (2005, background): “Moreover, older adults may experience positive affect as often (Charles et al. 2001) or even more often (Mroczek and Kolarz 1998) than their younger counterparts.”
Aging and Attentional Biases for Emotional Faces (2003, result): “This is consistent with the finding that negative affect decreases across the life span (Carstensen et al., 2000; Charles et al., 2001; Gross et al., 1997).”
Aging and emotional memory: the forgettable nature of negative images for older adults. (2003, methodology): “E-mail: scharles@uci.edu improves with age in studies using self-report measures (Carstensen et al., 2000; Charles et al., 2001).”
Change in life satisfaction during adulthood: findings from the veterans affairs normative aging study. (2005, background): “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).”
Emotion Regulation and Stress (2011, background): “Generally, selfreported negative emotions decrease from early adulthood to late adulthood, but in late adulthood, the direction of the change lacks consistency across studies (Carstensen et al. 2000; Charles et al. 2001; Diener and Suh 1998; Smith and Baltes 1993).”
Aging, Adult Development, and Work Motivation (2004, background): “Trait theorists, such as Costa and McCrae (1988), emphasize the genetic and biological basis for personality structure and argue that traits, by definition, can be expected to remain stable over time and consistent across situations.”
Personality Trait Development in Adulthood (2012, background): “For example, Charles, Reynolds, and Gatz (2001) reported decreases in negative affect from adolescence through age 60 in a cross-sequential longitudinal study and no change thereafter.”