Young and Older Adults' Expression of Emotional Experience: Do Autobiographical Narratives Tell a Different Story?

Alea, Nicole; Bluck, Susan; Semegon, Angelenia B.

doi:10.1023/b:jade.0000044527.52470.5d

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“…It has been suggested that, younger adults, in response to interpersonal conflicts, are more likely to experience anger than older adults (Charles & Carstensen, 2008). It has also been suggested that older adults tend to report fewer interpersonal conflicts and respond to those with less stress and better emotional regulation (Alea, Bluck, Smegon, 2004;Birditt, Fingerman, & Almeida, 2005;Charles & Carstensen, 2008;Mroczek & Almeida, 2004). As regards to this sample of women, our results would seem to partially support that proposition.…”

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Age Differences in Women’s Anger Experience and Expression

González-Prendes¹,

Praill²,

Kernsmith³

2013

IJPS

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Research on women's anger is relative scarce. In this study the authors examined differences in anger experience and expression in women across three distinct age groups: 18-30, 31-49, and 50 and above. The authors used the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2 (STAXI-2) to survey a sample of 239 women in the United States and Canada. The groups were established according to hypothesized transitional life stages of changing responsibilities and expectations. A MANCOVA was used to test the effect of age and covariates of education, employment, relationship status, and country of residence on participants' experience and expression of anger. The authors discuss limitations relative to sampling strategies as well as sample demographics and size, and discuss implications the implications of the findings for practice and future research.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Age Differences in Women’s Anger Experience and Expression

González-Prendes¹,

Praill²,

Kernsmith³

2013

IJPS

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“…At least one study failed to show differences in the emotional characteristics of older and younger adults' (personal) autobiographical memories (Alea, Bluck, & Semegon, 2004), suggesting that when material is highly relevant, older adults do not selectively attend to positive information. If this is so, recall of pictures that are relatively high in personal relevance should not differ across positive and negative valence conditions, nor should age interact with emotional valence.…”

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Personal relevance modulates the positivity bias in recall of emotional pictures in older adults

Tomaszczyk

Fernandes

MacLeod

2008

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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“…The current research coded memory narratives for the affective, cognitive, and sensory processes categories. Note that although a word-count strategy seems to be a rather crude method of content analyses, it is quite commonly used in the literature, relates to other measures of memory phenomenology (e.g., Alea et al 2004), and is related to health outcomes (Pennebaker 2003).…”

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The Content of Older Adults’ Autobiographical Memories Predicts the Beneficial Outcomes of Reminiscence Group Participation

2009

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Much research has investigated the beneficial outcomes of reminiscence groups, like guided autobiography groups. Few have assessed whether the content of the autobiographical memories shared during these groups, however, predicts beneficial outcomes. This is the main goal of the current study. Sixteen participants responded to questionnaires about depression, death attitudes, and psychological well-being before and after an 8-week reminiscence group. Results indicated that group participation decreased depression, lowered fear and avoidance of death, and improved death acceptance. The 41 memory narratives collected from group participants were content analyzed for affective, cognitive, and sensory processes. Analyses revealed that memory content predicted levels of depression after group participation. Specifically, memories with more positive affective words (e.g., happy) predicted less depressive symptoms, and memories with negative cognitive process words (e.g., perhaps) predicted more depressive symptoms. The implications for remembering life events in old age are discussed.

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Young and Older Adults' Expression of Emotional Experience: Do Autobiographical Narratives Tell a Different Story?

Cited by 52 publications

References 42 publications

Age Differences in Women’s Anger Experience and Expression

Age Differences in Women’s Anger Experience and Expression

Personal relevance modulates the positivity bias in recall of emotional pictures in older adults

The Content of Older Adults’ Autobiographical Memories Predicts the Beneficial Outcomes of Reminiscence Group Participation

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