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

该项目旨在研究情绪对日常挑战的反应和情绪调节方面的互补设计的新组合，因为它将对正在进行的成人发展跨学科纵向研究(ILSE)的老年和高龄参与者进行动态和基于实验室的评估，并在未来几年对这些评估进行跟踪。将体内和实验室对不同分析水平(经验性的、生理学的)情绪反应和调节的检测与20多年来追踪的一套丰富的医学、认知和心理社会措施相结合，将使我们能够强烈地解决三个首要目标：(1)在受控条件下和当人们开始日常生活时，对老年和非常老年的情绪反应和调节进行全面研究。(2)对之前的条件--身体健康、认知功能和对衰老的自我感知--的检查，这些条件可能是老年和非常老年时情绪反应和情绪调节的优势和弱点因素。(3)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非常年长参与者的身体和心理功能的长期影响的检查。这项建议的研究旨在填补越来越多的关于老年和高龄情绪弹性的证据的空白，并将大大扩大关于情绪调节的程度、限制和混杂因素的知识，这些年龄段的人群受到日益增加的丧失风险的关键影响，这些风险对情绪健康构成挑战。

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.