Adult age-related differences in susceptibility to social conformity pressures in self-control over daily desires.
Adult age-related differences in susceptibility to social conformity pressures in self-control over daily desires.
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成年人对日常欲望的自我控制对社会从众压力的敏感性存在与年龄相关的差异。
DOI：
10.1037/pag0000790
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发表时间：
2024
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Seaman,KendraL
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作者：
Castrellon,JaimeJ;Zald,DavidH;Samanez-Larkin,GregoryR;Seaman,KendraL
Developmental literature suggests that susceptibility to social conformity pressure peaks in adolescence and disappears with maturity into early adulthood. Predictions about these behaviors are less clear for middle-aged and older adults. On the one hand, while age-related increases in prioritization of socioemotional goals might predict greater susceptibility to social conformity pressures, aging is also associated with enhanced emotion regulation that could support resistance to conformity pressures. In this exploratory research study, we used mobile experience sampling surveys to naturalistically track how 157 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 80 practice self-control over spontaneous desires in daily life. Many of these desires were experienced in the presence of others enacting that desire. Results showed that middle-aged and older adults were better at controlling their desires than younger adults when desires were experienced in the presence of others enacting that desire. Consistent with the literature on improved emotion regulation with age, these results provide evidence that the ability to resist social conformity pressure is enhanced across the adult life span.
