Uchino Bert N, Berg Cynthia A, Smith Timothy W, Pearce Gale, Skinner Michelle
University of Utah, Department of Psychology, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0251, USA.
Psychol Aging. 2006 Jun;21(2):231-9. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.2.231.
Prior research on age and emotions has found that older adults may show better physiological regulation to stressful stimuli than do younger adults. However, the stress reactivity literature has shown that age is associated with higher cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory stress (J. R. Jennings et al., 1997). The authors investigated these conflicting findings further by examining daily ambulatory blood pressure in 428 middle-aged to older adults. Consistent with the age and reactivity literature, relatively old individuals showed significantly greater increases in ambulatory diastolic blood pressure compared with younger individuals when dealing with daily stressors. However, results also revealed that relatively old individuals reported less of an increase in negative affect during daily stress compared with their younger counterparts. The results of this study are consistent with the age-related increase in cardiovascular risk but highlight the complex links between stress and different facets of the aging process.
先前关于年龄与情绪的研究发现，与年轻人相比，老年人在面对压力刺激时可能表现出更好的生理调节能力。然而，应激反应的相关文献表明，年龄与实验室压力下更高的心血管反应性有关（J. R. 詹宁斯等人，1997年）。作者通过检查428名中年至老年成年人的日常动态血压，进一步研究了这些相互矛盾的发现。与年龄和反应性的文献一致，在应对日常压力源时，相对年长的个体与年轻个体相比，动态舒张压的升高幅度明显更大。然而，结果还显示，与年轻同龄人相比，相对年长的个体在日常压力期间报告的负面影响增加较少。这项研究的结果与心血管风险随年龄增长而增加的情况一致，但突出了压力与衰老过程不同方面之间的复杂联系。
