The Role of Autobiographical Memory in Late-Life Emotion Regulation

自传体记忆在晚年情绪调节中的作用

• 批准号: 10327280
• 负责人: Irina Orlovsky
• 金额: $ 4.05万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-02-01 至 2024-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10327280
• 关键词: Acute; Adult; Age; Age-associated memory impairment; Aging; Alzheimer' s Disease; Behavioral; Brain; Brain region; Clinical; Cognitive; Cognitive Therapy; Dementia; Distress; Elderly; Emotional; Emotional Stress; Emotions; Frequencies; Goals; Health; Image; Impaired cognition; Incidence; Individual; Intervention; Language; Life; Life Experience; Longevity; Measures; Medial; Memory; Mental Health; Methods; Mission; Mood Disorders; Motivation; Patient Self-Report; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Physiological; Population; Prevalence; Process; Recovery; Reporting; Research; Role; Shoes; Testing; Text; Thinking; Transcript; Treatment Efficacy; United States National Institutes of Health; Well in self; age group; age related; aging demographic; amnestic mild cognitive impairment; cognitive control; cognitive enhancement; cognitive function; cognitive reappraisal; emotion dysregulation; emotion regulation; emotional experience; emotional functioning; emotional stimulus; experience; flexibility; functional independence; improved; middle age; neuropsychiatry; novel; novel strategies; preservation; resilience; skills; success; therapy development; young adult

PROJECT SUMMARY Emotion regulation becomes more cognitively challenging with age, yet older adults report greater well-being than younger adults. Cognitive reappraisal- or reinterpreting the meaning of a stressful situation to reduce its emotional impact- shows mixed findings in terms of efficacy and effort across age. Limited research has investigated which preserved functions may promote success for demanding strategies such as reappraisal in aging populations. We hypothesize that given an increased repertoire of emotional experiences across the lifespan, access to rich and salient autobiographical memories may promote resilience and successful reappraisal in late-life. The long-term goal of this research is to identify the mechanism by which healthy older adults regulate their emotions to maintain well-being, in spite of cognitive decline. This will inform clinical interventions for mood disorders and emotion dysregulation in aging. Our objective for this proposal is to better track the role of autobiographical memory, a self-referential memory skill that is well preserved with age, in reappraisal among older adults. We hypothesize that older adults will naturalistically reference autobiographical memories with higher frequency than younger adults during reappraisal use, and that autobiographical reappraisal will be less cognitive demanding than non-autobiographical reappraisal for this age group. To investigate these questions, we aim (1) to determine the naturalistic use of autobiographical memory in emotion regulation among younger and older adults (2) to assess the relative effort and efficacy associated with autobiographical versus non-autobiographical reappraisal and (3) to determine the role of cognitive control in autobiographical reappraisal. Under the first aim, we will qualitatively determine the naturalistic frequency with which older and younger adults use self-referential language and autobiographical memories in their reports of emotion regulation to negative images. Under the second aim we will investigate the relative efficacy and cognitive effort associated with autobiographical reappraisal via eyetracking. Our third aim will build on these findings by exploring the role of cognitive control in autobiographical and non- autobiographical reappraisal. The proposed research seeks to develop clinical interventions that align and build upon cognitive strengths and goals of elderly individuals, rather than utilizing interventions cognitively optimized for younger and mid-life adults, promoting translational significance with novel emotion regulation approaches. Specifically, utilizing self-referential autobiographical memory in traditional practices of cognitive therapy may bolster intervention efficacy. The proposed study would build on theoretical significance by taking an initial step in elucidating the underlying processes regarding preserved emotion regulation with age.

项目摘要 随着年龄的增长，情绪调节在认知上变得更具挑战性，但老年人的幸福感更高 比年轻的成年人。认知重新评估-或重新解释压力情况的含义，以减少其 情绪影响-在各年龄段的效力和努力方面的结果参差不齐。有限的研究 研究了哪些保留的功能可以促进要求策略的成功，例如重新评估， 人口老龄化。我们假设，在整个人类社会中， 寿命，获得丰富和突出的自传体记忆可能会促进弹性和成功 晚年的重新评价这项研究的长期目标是确定健康老年人 成年人尽管认知能力下降，但仍会调节情绪以保持健康。这将告知临床 干预情绪障碍和情绪失调的老化。我们提出这项建议的目的是 更好地跟踪自传体记忆的作用，这是一种保存完好的自我参照记忆技能 随着年龄的增长，在老年人中重新评估。我们假设老年人会自然地 自传体记忆在重新评价使用过程中的频率高于年轻人， 因此，自传体的重新评价比非自传体的重新评价对认知的要求要低。 年龄段为了研究这些问题，我们的目标是（1）确定自传体的自然主义使用 年轻人和老年人的情绪调节记忆（2），以评估相对努力和功效 与自传体与非自传体的重新评价和（3），以确定的作用， 自传体再评价中的认知控制在第一个目标下，我们将定性地确定 老年人和年轻人使用自我指涉语言和自传体语言的自然频率 在他们对负面图像的情绪调节报告中的记忆。在第二个目标下，我们将研究 通过眼动追踪与自传体重新评价相关的相对功效和认知努力。我们的第三 aim将在这些发现的基础上，探索认知控制在自传体和非自传体中的作用。 自传体的重新评价拟议的研究旨在开发临床干预措施， 建立在老年人的认知优势和目标之上，而不是利用认知干预 针对年轻人和中年人进行了优化，通过新颖的情绪调节促进翻译意义 接近。具体来说，在传统的认知实践中利用自我参照自传体记忆， 治疗可以提高干预效果。拟议的研究将建立在理论意义上， 迈出了阐明随着年龄增长保持情绪调节的基本过程的第一步。