Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, 3340 Social Ecology II, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7085, USA.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2010 May;65B(3):279-86. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbq002. Epub 2010 Jan 31.
The current study examined age differences in daily stressors, positive events (uplifts), and their associations with emotional experience among healthy older women. Women (N = 101, 63-93 years old) reported their daily experiences across 1 week. Older age was related to fewer stressors and less frequent negative affect. However, the association between negative affect and age was no longer significant after accounting for the occurrence of daily stressors. Older age was not significantly related to positive affect, although positive uplifts were reported less frequently with age. Findings provide a contextual explanation for emotional experience in very late life, where reduced exposure to stressors partially explains age-related reductions in negative affect.
本研究考察了健康老年女性日常压力源、积极事件（提升）及其与情绪体验之间的年龄差异。女性（N=101，63-93 岁）在一周内报告了她们的日常经历。与年轻组相比，年龄较大的参与者报告的压力源较少，负性情绪出现频率也较低。然而，在考虑到日常压力源的发生后，负性情绪与年龄之间的关联不再显著。年龄与正性情绪无显著相关性，尽管随着年龄的增长，正性提升的报告频率较低。这些发现为非常晚期生命中的情绪体验提供了一个情境解释，其中压力源的减少部分解释了与年龄相关的负性情绪的减少。
