Emotion regulation in younger and older couples: A multi-method study testing age differences in interpersonal emotion regulation

年轻和年长夫妇的情绪调节：一项测试人际情绪调节年龄差异的多方法研究

• 批准号: 437290819
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Philipp Kanske
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Evangelische Hochschule Dresden
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/437290819?language=en
• 关键词: Emotion; regulation; younger; older; couples

Across the entire life span, emotional experience and emotion regulation are essential to the quality and stability of romantic relationships, and have a strong impact on well-being and health of both partners (Hoppmann & Gerstorf, 2009). Theoretically, intrapersonal (i.e., an individual regulates one’s own emotions) and interpersonal (i.e., an individual regulates the emotion of his or her partner) emotion regulation can be differentiated (Gross, 2014). However, despite the social embeddedness of emotional experience and emotion regulation, the majority of studies has adopted an individualistic approach and has almost exclusively focused on intrapersonal emotion regulation (e.g., Levenson et al., 2014). Life span theories such as the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (Carstensen, 2006) consider emotional aging as a domain of age-related gains, though, there is also evidence emphasizing the increasing dependency of emotional experience, emotion regulation, and regulatory success on contextual characteristics as well as on the availability of (decreasing) resources and (increasing) vulnerabilities (Urry & Gross, 2010). Due to focus on intrapersonal emotion regulation and the dominance of individualistic studies that ignore the social embeddedness of emotional experience and emotion regulation little is known about age differences in the frequency and the success of interpersonal emotion regulation, the role of underlying mechanisms of interpersonal emotion regulation, as well as its functionality in younger and older adulthood. The proposed project aims at answering these open questions by applying a comprehensive multi-method design. More concretely, it combines the advantages of experience-sampling methods that allow the assessment of interpersonal emotion regulation in daily-life, with a laboratory study that offers high experimental control. In doing so, it allows a thorough view on the performance (i.e., how often do younger and older couples regulate their partner’s emotion) and the competence (i.e., how successful are younger and older couples in regulating their partner’s emotion), and its association with well-being and health of both partners. Moreover, the project will deepen our understanding of interpersonal emotion regulation by considering different levels of emotional reactivity (e.g., subjective experience, facial and verbal behavior, physiological reactivity) as well as assessing subjective and objective indicators of regulatory success. The project does not only promise a deepened knowledge about interpersonal emotion regulation in adulthood, but also generates insights for interventions on successful aging processes

在整个生命周期中，情绪体验和情绪调节对浪漫关系的质量和稳定性至关重要，对双方的幸福和健康有很大的影响（Hoppmann & Gerstorf，2009）。从理论上讲，个人内部（即，个体调节自己的情绪）和人际（即，一个人调节他或她的伴侣的情绪）情绪调节可以区分（格罗斯，2014）。然而，尽管情绪体验和情绪调节具有社会嵌入性，但大多数研究都采用了个人主义的方法，并且几乎完全专注于自我情绪调节（例如，Levenson等人，2014年）。寿命理论，如社会情绪选择理论（Carstensen，2006）认为情绪老化是与年龄相关的收益的一个领域，尽管如此，也有证据强调情绪体验的依赖性越来越大，情绪调节，以及环境特征的调节成功，以及（减少）资源和（增加）脆弱性的可用性（Urry & Gross，2010）。由于专注于自我情绪调节和个人主义研究的主导地位，忽视了情绪体验和情绪调节的社会嵌入性，很少有人知道人际情绪调节的频率和成功的年龄差异，人际情绪调节的潜在机制的作用，以及它在年轻和老年人的功能。该项目旨在通过应用全面的多方法设计来回答这些开放性问题。更具体地说，它结合了经验采样方法的优势，允许在日常生活中的人际情绪调节的评估，与实验室研究，提供高实验控制。在这样做时，它允许对性能进行全面查看（即，年轻夫妇和年长夫妇多久调节他们伴侣的情绪）和能力（即，年轻夫妇和年长夫妇在调节伴侣情绪方面的成功程度），以及它与伴侣双方的幸福和健康的关系。此外，该项目将通过考虑不同水平的情绪反应（例如，主观经验、面部和语言行为、生理反应）以及评估调节成功的主观和客观指标。该项目不仅承诺加深对成年期人际情绪调节的了解，而且还为成功的衰老过程的干预提供了见解