Mild Cognitive Impairment and Emotion Regulation in Naturalistic Contexts

自然环境中的轻度认知障碍和情绪调节

• 批准号: 9912698
• 负责人: Tammy English
• 金额: $ 19.67万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-15 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9912698
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Age; Aging; Alzheimer' s Disease; Attention; Awareness; Behavioral; Buffers; Cognition; Cognitive; Cognitive aging; Cognitive deficits; Crystallization; Depressed mood; Effectiveness; Elderly; Emotional; Emotions; Environment; Evaluation; Exposure to; Facial Expression; Feeling; Film; Goals; Height; Impaired cognition; Impairment; Individual; Laboratories; Life; Light; Liquid substance; Measures; Mental Health; Methods; Moods; Outcome; Participant; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Personality; Persons; Play; Population; Process; Quality of life; Regulation; Research; Resistance; Resources; Risk; Role; Sampling; Short-Term Memory; Social Environment; Source; Speed; Standardization; Stimulus; Taxes; Telephone; Testing; Time; Well in self; Work; base; behavior measurement; cognitive control; distraction; emotion dysregulation; emotion regulation; emotional experience; experience; experimental study; flexibility; healthy aging; high risk; improved; mange; mild cognitive impairment; normal aging; physical conditioning; positive emotional state; psychologic; recruit; response; screening; social; social factors; social relationships; stressor; young adult

Project Summary Emotion regulation is a central determinant of psychological and physical well-being. As individuals age, they show decline in various aspects of cognition thought to be central to effective emotion regulation. Nonetheless, older adults are typically able to maintain their emotional well-being, such that they experience more stable and positive emotions in daily life. It is unclear, however, whether those with more accelerated cognitive decline also retain this ability to effectively regulate their emotions. It is conceivable that those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), who are at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, can compensate for declines in cognitive control by harnessing existing personal and social resources to meet their emotional goals. This ability may break down, however, when resources are taxed or if cognitive impairment becomes more severe. The proposed project will address critical questions about the role of cognitive control in emotion regulation and delineate sources of vulnerability for emotion dysregulation in later adulthood. In doing so, it will test whether relying on less cognitively demanding strategies and drawing on social ties in daily life can buffer older adults from the potential negative impact of MCI on emotional well-being outcomes. The overall objective of the proposed project is to advance understanding of the effectiveness of emotion regulation in later adulthood among those with MCI and healthy cognitive aging. The specific aims of the project are to (1) identify whether emotion regulation effectiveness differs in older adults with MCI (versus older adults with healthy cognitive aging and younger adults), (2) characterize patterns of emotion regulation strategy use among older adults with MCI, and (3) isolate contexts in which older adults with MCI are buffered from emotion regulation difficulties. To achieve these aims, a representative sample of older adults (ages 70 to 84) with MCI or normal cognitive aging and younger adults (ages 20 to 34) will be recruited for a three-part study that incorporates both standardized lab tasks and experience sampling of daily life. Participants will complete two laboratory sessions. The first session will include a comprehensive cognitive battery (including measures of fluid and crystallized cognition) and self-report measures of physical health and personality. The second session will include a standardized emotion regulation film task in which emotional outcomes (subjective experience and behavioral expressions) will be assessed after instructing participants to decrease sadness or disgust using an assigned strategy (reappraisal or distraction) and self-selected strategies. Between these two laboratory sessions, participants will complete 14 days of experience sampling that will assess their daily emotional experience and emotion regulation, tracking emotion dynamics and flexibility of strategy use. Ultimately, this work could aid in improving quality of life in MCI and as well as healthy aging populations by illuminating ways to optimize emotion regulation efforts based on one's existing resources.

项目概要 情绪调节是心理和身体健康的核心决定因素。随着个体年龄的增长， 它们表现出认知能力各个方面的下降，而这些认知能力被认为是有效情绪调节的核心。 尽管如此，老年人通常能够保持情绪健康，从而体验到 日常生活中情绪更加稳定和积极。然而，尚不清楚那些加速速度更快的人是否 认知能力下降也保留了这种有效调节情绪的能力。可以想象的是，那些具有 患有阿尔茨海默病的风险较高的轻度认知障碍 (MCI) 可以得到补偿 通过利用现有的个人和社会资源来满足他们的情感，从而降低认知控制力 目标。然而，当资源被征税或认知障碍变得严重时，这种能力可能会崩溃。 更严重。拟议的项目将解决有关认知控制在情绪中的作用的关键问题 调节并描绘成年后期情绪失调的脆弱性来源。这样做时，它将 测试依靠认知要求较低的策略和利用日常生活中的社会关系是否可以缓冲 老年人免受 MCI 对情绪健康结果的潜在负面影响。 该项目的总体目标是增进对情绪有效性的理解 患有 MCI 和健康认知衰老的人在成年后期的调节。该计划的具体目标 该项目的目标是 (1) 确定患有 MCI 的老年人（与老年人相比）情绪调节的有效性是否有所不同 具有健康认知老化的成年人和年轻人），（2）描述情绪调节模式 患有 MCI 的老年人中的策略使用，以及 (3) 隔离患有 MCI 的老年人得到缓冲的环境 来自情绪调节困难。为了实现这些目标，老年人（70岁至70岁）的代表性样本 84) 患有 MCI 或正常认知老化的年轻人（20 至 34 岁）将被招募参加由三部分组成的项目 研究结合了标准化实验室任务和日常生活经验采样。参与者将 完成两个实验室课程。第一个课程将包括全面的认知电池（包括 流体和结晶认知的测量）以及身体健康和人格的自我报告测量。这 第二部分将包括标准化的情绪调节电影任务，其中情绪结果 （主观体验和行为表达）将在指导参与者减少后进行评估 使用指定的策略（重新评估或分散注意力）和自我选择的策略来表达悲伤或厌恶。 在这两次实验室会议之间，参与者将完成 14 天的经验采样，这将 评估他们的日常情绪体验和情绪调节，跟踪情绪动态和灵活性 策略使用。最终，这项工作可能有助于改善 MCI 的生活质量以及健康老龄化 通过阐明基于现有资源优化情绪调节工作的方法来帮助人们。