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doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00311 The role of affect in attentional functioning for younger and older... more doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00311 The role of affect in attentional functioning for younger and older adults
Journals of Gerontology Series B-psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2009
Previous research has suggested that emotion regulation improves with age. This study examined bo... more Previous research has suggested that emotion regulation improves with age. This study examined both age and individual differences in online emotion regulation after a negative mood induction. We found evidence that older adults were more likely to rapidly regulate their emotions than were younger adults. Moreover, older adults who rapidly regulated had lower trait anxiety and depressive symptoms and higher
Frontiers in psychology, 2012
Although previous research has shown that positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) modulate ... more Although previous research has shown that positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) modulate attentional functioning in distinct ways, few studies have considered whether the links between affect and attentional functioning may vary as a function of age. Using the Attention Network Test (Fan et al., 2002), we tested whether participants' current state of PA and NA influenced distinct attentional functions (i.e., alerting, orienting, and executive attention) and how the relationships between affective states and attentional functioning differ in younger (18-25 years) and older (60-85 years) age groups. While there were age differences in alerting efficiency, these age differences were mediated by PA, indicating that the higher state PA found in older adults may contribute to age differences in alerting. Furthermore, age group moderated the relationship between PA and orienting as well as NA and orienting. That is, higher levels of PA and lower levels of NA were associated wit...
Integrating the Light Sides and Dark Sides, 2014
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00311 The role of affect in attentional functioning for younger and older... more doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00311 The role of affect in attentional functioning for younger and older adults
Journals of Gerontology Series B-psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2009
Previous research has suggested that emotion regulation improves with age. This study examined bo... more Previous research has suggested that emotion regulation improves with age. This study examined both age and individual differences in online emotion regulation after a negative mood induction. We found evidence that older adults were more likely to rapidly regulate their emotions than were younger adults. Moreover, older adults who rapidly regulated had lower trait anxiety and depressive symptoms and higher
Frontiers in psychology, 2012
Although previous research has shown that positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) modulate ... more Although previous research has shown that positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) modulate attentional functioning in distinct ways, few studies have considered whether the links between affect and attentional functioning may vary as a function of age. Using the Attention Network Test (Fan et al., 2002), we tested whether participants' current state of PA and NA influenced distinct attentional functions (i.e., alerting, orienting, and executive attention) and how the relationships between affective states and attentional functioning differ in younger (18-25 years) and older (60-85 years) age groups. While there were age differences in alerting efficiency, these age differences were mediated by PA, indicating that the higher state PA found in older adults may contribute to age differences in alerting. Furthermore, age group moderated the relationship between PA and orienting as well as NA and orienting. That is, higher levels of PA and lower levels of NA were associated wit...
Integrating the Light Sides and Dark Sides, 2014