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Pleasure before business: emotions and age effects on daily activity scheduling
Activity scheduling represents a key process in daily life, involving the evaluation of the costs and benefits of the resources to be invested, but also a preference for when to engage in pleasant or unpleasant activities. Aging affects the evaluation processes and individual preferences due to chan...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10598225/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37875478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44245-w |
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author | La Malva, Pasquale Ceccato, Irene Di Crosta, Adolfo D’Angelo, Nico Marin, Anna Bartolini, Emanuela D’Intino, Eleonora Mammarella, Nicola Palumbo, Riccardo Palumbo, Rocco Di Domenico, Alberto |
author_facet | La Malva, Pasquale Ceccato, Irene Di Crosta, Adolfo D’Angelo, Nico Marin, Anna Bartolini, Emanuela D’Intino, Eleonora Mammarella, Nicola Palumbo, Riccardo Palumbo, Rocco Di Domenico, Alberto |
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description | Activity scheduling represents a key process in daily life, involving the evaluation of the costs and benefits of the resources to be invested, but also a preference for when to engage in pleasant or unpleasant activities. Aging affects the evaluation processes and individual preferences due to changes in cognitive functioning and life perspectives. The present study investigated the differences between younger adults (age range 19–33) and older adults (age range 65–87) in a task assessing preferential scheduling of activities. Participants were asked to schedule thirty emotional activities (positive, negative, or neutral) within a 30-day time window, assigning one activity for each day. Results indicated that older adults, but not younger adults, planned positive activities closer in time, supporting the “positivity effect”. Also, both younger and older adults tended to postpone negative activities, scheduling them in the last days. Finally, for older adults only, negative affect was associated with the tendency to put positive activities closer in time. Present findings showed age-specific effects of emotional content on daily activity scheduling. |
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spelling | pubmed-105982252023-10-26 Pleasure before business: emotions and age effects on daily activity scheduling La Malva, Pasquale Ceccato, Irene Di Crosta, Adolfo D’Angelo, Nico Marin, Anna Bartolini, Emanuela D’Intino, Eleonora Mammarella, Nicola Palumbo, Riccardo Palumbo, Rocco Di Domenico, Alberto Sci Rep Article Activity scheduling represents a key process in daily life, involving the evaluation of the costs and benefits of the resources to be invested, but also a preference for when to engage in pleasant or unpleasant activities. Aging affects the evaluation processes and individual preferences due to changes in cognitive functioning and life perspectives. The present study investigated the differences between younger adults (age range 19–33) and older adults (age range 65–87) in a task assessing preferential scheduling of activities. Participants were asked to schedule thirty emotional activities (positive, negative, or neutral) within a 30-day time window, assigning one activity for each day. Results indicated that older adults, but not younger adults, planned positive activities closer in time, supporting the “positivity effect”. Also, both younger and older adults tended to postpone negative activities, scheduling them in the last days. Finally, for older adults only, negative affect was associated with the tendency to put positive activities closer in time. Present findings showed age-specific effects of emotional content on daily activity scheduling. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10598225/ /pubmed/37875478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44245-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article La Malva, Pasquale Ceccato, Irene Di Crosta, Adolfo D’Angelo, Nico Marin, Anna Bartolini, Emanuela D’Intino, Eleonora Mammarella, Nicola Palumbo, Riccardo Palumbo, Rocco Di Domenico, Alberto Pleasure before business: emotions and age effects on daily activity scheduling |
title | Pleasure before business: emotions and age effects on daily activity scheduling |
title_full | Pleasure before business: emotions and age effects on daily activity scheduling |
title_fullStr | Pleasure before business: emotions and age effects on daily activity scheduling |
title_full_unstemmed | Pleasure before business: emotions and age effects on daily activity scheduling |
title_short | Pleasure before business: emotions and age effects on daily activity scheduling |
title_sort | pleasure before business: emotions and age effects on daily activity scheduling |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10598225/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37875478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44245-w |
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