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| Age and gender difference in adults' descriptions of emotional reactions to interpersonal problems | | Author(s) | Kira S Birditt, Karen L Fingerman |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 4, July 2003 |
| Pages | pp P237-P245 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Personal relationships ; Stress ; Emotions ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | As part of a larger study of interpersonal problems in adulthood, 185 participants (85 male, 100 female, and ranging in age from 13 to 99) described the last time they were upset with members of their social networks, describing how they felt and the intensity and duration of their distress. Participants' reported emotions were grouped by use of theoretically derived categories and empirically derived post-hoc categories. Three emotion categories were examined: anger, sadness, and non-specific negative emotions. Adolescents and young adults were more likely than older people to describe anger, and also reported more intense aversive responses than older people. Women rated their distress as more intense than men. With the exception of middle-aged and the oldest-old, women reported that they experienced distress for a longer duration than men. Findings are interpreted in terms of theories regarding age and gender differences in emotion regulation and interpersonal tensions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040406210 A |
| Classmark | DS: QNH: DL: 3KB: 7T |
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