Speaking About Feelings: Further Evidence for Multidirectional Age Differences in Anger and Sadness
Speaking About Feelings: Further Evidence for Multidirectional Age Differences in Anger and Sadness
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DOI：
10.1037/pag0000142
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发表时间：
2017-02-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Wrosch, Carsten
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作者：
Kunzmann, Ute;Rohr, Margund;Wrosch, Carsten
本研究调查了82名年轻人（M-age = 26, SDage = 4.05）和80名老年人（M-age = 70, SDage = 3.95）在愤怒和悲伤方面的年龄差异。参与者被要求首先重温一段以愤怒或悲伤为特征的个人记忆，然后大声思考这段记忆。在不同的情绪反应系统（即主观感受、语言表达、面部行为、生理唤醒）中，老年人的愤怒反应比年轻人少，而悲伤的年龄差异则不那么明显。总之，这些发现证实了消极情绪反应的年龄差异是多向的，并表明离散情绪方法可以补充情绪衰老的维度方法。
This study investigated age differences in anger and sadness in a sample of 82 younger (M-age = 26, SDage = 4.05) and 80 older (M-age = 70, SDage = 3.95) adults. Participants were instructed to first relive a personal memory that was characterized by either anger or sadness and to subsequently think aloud about this memory. Across different emotional response systems (i.e., subjective feelings, verbal expressions, facial behaviors, physiological arousal), older adults reacted with less anger than did their younger counterparts, whereas age differences in sadness were less pronounced. Together the findings corroborate the idea that age differences in negative emotional reactivity are multidirectional and suggest that a discrete emotions approach may complement dimensional approaches to emotional aging.