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: 10565890
• 负责人: Irina Orlovsky
• 金额: $ 4.14万
• 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/10565890
• 关键词: Acute; Adult; Age; Age-associated memory impairment; Aging; Alzheimer' s Disease; Autobiography; 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; Writing; age group; age related; aging demographic; aging demography; 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; promote resilience; resilience; skills; success; therapy development; visual tracking; 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.

项目概要 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 比年轻人。认知重新评估——或重新解释压力情况的含义以减少其压力 情感影响——在不同年龄段的功效和努力方面显示出不同的结果。有限的研究已 研究了哪些保留的功能可以促进要求较高的策略的成功，例如重新评估 人口老龄化。我们假设，鉴于整个人的情感体验不断增加， 在生命周期中，获得丰富而显着的自传体记忆可能会提高韧性和成功 晚年重新评价。这项研究的长期目标是确定健康老年人的机制 尽管认知能力下降，成年人仍会调节自己的情绪以保持健康。这将告知临床 针对衰老过程中情绪障碍和情绪失调的干预措施。我们此提案的目标是 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，老年人会重新评估。我们假设老年人会自然地参考 在重新评估使用过程中，自传体记忆的频率高于年轻人，并且 对此，自传体重新评估的认知要求低于非自传体重新评估 年龄组。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用法 年轻人和老年人情绪调节中的记忆 (2) 评估相对努力和功效 与自传体与非自传体的重新评估相关，以及（3）确定 自传体重评中的认知控制。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 他们对负面图像的情绪调节报告中的记忆。根据第二个目标，我们将调查 通过眼球追踪进行自传式重新评估的相对功效和认知努力。我们的第三个 目标将通过探索认知控制在自传体和非传体中的作用来建立在这些发现的基础上。 自传式的重新评价。拟议的研究旨在开发临床干预措施，以协调和 建立在老年人的认知优势和目标的基础上，而不是利用认知干预措施 针对年轻和中年成年人进行优化，通过新颖的情绪调节促进转化意义 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 治疗可能会增强干预效果。拟议的研究将建立在理论意义的基础上 迈出第一步，阐明随着年龄的增长而保留的情绪调节的基本过程。

项目成果

Remembering past challenges to feel better today: Role of neural dedifferentiation and autobiographical integration in late-life reappraisal.

记住过去的挑战，以使今天感觉更好：神经去分化和自传整合在晚年重新评估中的作用。

• DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2022.2044011
• 发表时间: 2022-05
• 期刊: Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition
• 作者: Martins-Klein B;Orlovsky I;Heideman K
• 通讯作者: Heideman K