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

该项目旨在对日常挑战和情绪调节的情绪反应研究中的互补设计进行新颖的组合，因为它将对正在进行的成人发展跨学科纵向研究（ILSE）中的老年人和老年参与者进行动态和基于实验室的评估，并在未来几年内进行这些评估。在不同的分析水平上将情绪反应和调节的体内和实验室检查联系起来（经验的，生理的）与一套丰富的医疗，认知和心理社会的措施，已被跟踪超过20年，将允许集中解决三个首要目标：（1）在受控条件下，随着人们日常生活的进行，对老年人和非常老年人的情绪反应和调节进行全面研究。(2)对身体健康、认知功能和对衰老的自我感知等先决条件的检查，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脆弱因素。(3)检查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高龄参与者的身体和心理功能的长期影响。建议的研究旨在填补越来越多的关于老年人和老年人情绪弹性的证据中的空白，并将大大扩大对年龄组情绪调节的程度，限制和混淆因素的了解，这些年龄组受到越来越多的损失风险的严重影响，挑战情绪健康。

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.