Emotional Reactivity and Regulation in Old Age: A Multi-Time-Scale Approach

该项目旨在将日常挑战的情绪反应和情绪调节研究中的互补设计进行新颖的组合，因为它将对正在进行的跨学科成人发展纵向研究（ILSE）中的老年和高龄参与者进行动态和实验室评估，并在未来几年跟进这些研究。将体内和实验室对情绪反应和调节的不同分析水平（经验的、生理的）的检查与20多年来追踪的一套丰富的医学、认知和社会心理测量相结合，将使我们能够强烈地解决三个总体目标：(1)在控制条件下，在人们日常生活的常规情况下，对老年人和极老年人的情绪反应和调节进行全面研究。(2)对身体健康、认知功能和对衰老的自我认知等前因条件的研究，这些前因可能是老年和极老年情绪反应和情绪调节的优势和脆弱因素。(3)研究了在实验室和日常生活中观察到的情绪反应和调节的短期动态对老年和超老年参与者的生理和心理功能的长期影响。这项建议的研究旨在填补越来越多的关于老年人和老年人情绪恢复能力的证据的空白，并将大大扩大对年龄群体情绪调节的程度、限制和混杂因素的认识，这些群体受到日益增加的丧失风险的影响，这些风险挑战了情绪健康。

This project aims for a novel combination of complementary designs in the study of emotional reactivity to everyday challenges and emotion regulation, in that it will conduct ambulatory and laboratory-based assessments of old and very old participants from the ongoing Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Development (ILSE), also following these up in the years to come. Linking in-vivo and lab examinations of emotional reactivity and regulation at different levels of analysis (experiential, physiological) with an rich set of medical, cognitive, and psychosocial measures that have been tracked over more than 20 years will allow to intensely address three overarching objectives: (1) A comprehensive study of emotional reactivity and regulation in old and very old age under controlled conditions and as people go about the routines of their daily lives. (2) An examination of antecedent conditions - physical health, cognitive functioning, and self-perceptions of aging - that may have served as strengths and vulnerability factors for emotional reactivity and emotion regulation in old and very old age. (3) An examination of long-term implications of the short-term dynamics observed for emotional reactivity and regulation in the lab and in daily life on the old and very old participants' physical and psychological functioning. The suggested research aims to fill in gaps in the increasing body of evidence on emotional resilience in old and very old age, and will substantially enlarge the knowledge about extent, limits, and confounders of emotion regulation in age groups crucially affected by increasing risks of loss that challenge emotional well-being.