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| Differences in emotional experience and emotion regulation as a function of age and psychiatric condition | | Author(s) | Jennifer S Cheavens, M Zachary Rosenthal, Sammy F Banawan |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 12, no 4, July 2008 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, July 2008 |
| Pages | pp 478-487 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Emotions ; Mental disorder ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young people ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Self-reported experiences of negative affectivity and emotional regulation were evaluated in a sample of older (age 51-80) and younger (age 12-20) adults with and without psychiatric comorbidity. Study participants were divided into four groups (younger non-psychiatric, younger psychiatric, older non-psychiatric, and older psychiatric). Findings indicate that as hypothesised, individuals in the OP and YP groups reported more negative affect intensity and reactivity and more maladaptive emotion regulation than individuals in the ON and YN groups. Contrary to hypotheses, when collapsed across psychiatric conditions, older adults did not report significantly less negative affect intensity and reactivity than younger adults. A significant age by psychiatric group interaction effect on negative affect intensity occurred such that individuals in YN and ON groups reported similar levels of negative affect intensity and individual in the YP group reported more negative affect intensity than those in the OP group. The findings that older adults with Axis I and Axis H diagnoses differ in their symptom reports from younger adults with similar diagnoses suggests there may be important assessment and intervention issues related to interactions of ageing and psychopathology. Clinical implications and directions for future studies are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081010208 A |
| Classmark | ENR: DL: E: BB: SB: 48: 7T |
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