AGE AND LINGERING NEGATIVE AFFECT IN RESPONSE TO DAILY STRESSORS

One indicator of successful emotion regulation is the ability to affectively recover from a stressful event. According to the Theory of Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI), older adults use strategies such as reappraisal to aid in affective recovery after a stressor has passed. The current...

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Published in:Innovation in aging 2017-07, Vol.1 (suppl_1), p.1363-1364
Main Authors: Leger, K., Charles, S.T., Almeida, D.
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Language:English
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Summary:One indicator of successful emotion regulation is the ability to affectively recover from a stressful event. According to the Theory of Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI), older adults use strategies such as reappraisal to aid in affective recovery after a stressor has passed. The current study tests this theory by examining the extent to which older, middle age, and younger adults continue to experience lingering negative affect in response to a stressor that occurred the day before. Participants ( N =1813, Age 33–84) completed a series of daily interviews in Wave 2 of the National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE II). Multi-level models indicated that the middle age group reported greater lingering negative affect the day after a stressor occurred than both the older and the younger adults ( b =.024, p =.02). Results suggest that middle-aged adults, as opposed to younger and older adults, experience poorer affective recovery from daily stressful events.
ISSN:2399-5300
2399-5300
DOI:10.1093/geroni/igx004.5015