Lamonica Haley M, Keefe Richard S E, Harvey Philip D, Gold James M, Goldberg Terry E
Division of Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital Glen Oaks, NY, USA.
Front Aging Neurosci. 2010 Sep 30;2. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2010.00141. eCollection 2010.
While functioning in multiple domains declines with age, emotional regulation appears to remain preserved in older adults. The Emotion Inhibition (Emotional Stroop) Test requires participants to name the ink color in which neutrally and emotionally valenced words are printed. It was employed in the current investigation as a measure of affective regulation in the context of an interference task in relation to age. Results demonstrated that while participants ranging from 20 to 50 years of age performed significantly worse on the emotion Stroop Inhibition relative to the neutral Stroop Inhibition condition, subjects over 60 years of age displayed the converse of this pattern, performing better on the emotion than the neutral condition, suggesting that they are less affected by the emotional impact of the positive and negative words used in the former condition. This pattern of age-related change in the ability to manage emotion may be related to blunting of affective signaling in limbic structures or, at the psychological level, focusing on emotional regulation.
虽然在多个领域的功能会随着年龄增长而衰退，但情绪调节能力在老年人中似乎仍得以保留。情绪抑制（情绪斯特鲁普）测试要求参与者说出印有中性和带有情绪色彩词汇的墨水颜色。在当前的研究中，该测试被用作衡量在与年龄相关的干扰任务背景下的情感调节能力。结果表明，虽然20至50岁的参与者在情绪斯特鲁普抑制任务中的表现相对于中性斯特鲁普抑制任务显著更差，但60岁以上的受试者表现出相反的模式，即在情绪条件下的表现优于中性条件，这表明他们受前一种条件中使用的正负性词汇的情绪影响较小。这种与年龄相关的情绪管理能力变化模式可能与边缘系统中情感信号的减弱有关，或者在心理层面上，与专注于情绪调节有关。
