The Impact of Failures and Successes on Affect and Self-Esteem in Young and Older Adults

Older adults are assumed to change their affect states in reaction to positive and negative stimuli across the life span. However, little is known about the impact of success and failure events on age-related changes in affect states and, particularly, in self-esteem levels. To fill this gap in the...

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Autores principales: Rosi, Alessia, Cavallini, Elena, Gamboz, Nadia, Vecchi, Tomaso, Van Vugt, Floris Tijmen, Russo, Riccardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6691139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31447736
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01795
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author Rosi, Alessia
Cavallini, Elena
Gamboz, Nadia
Vecchi, Tomaso
Van Vugt, Floris Tijmen
Russo, Riccardo
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description Older adults are assumed to change their affect states in reaction to positive and negative stimuli across the life span. However, little is known about the impact of success and failure events on age-related changes in affect states and, particularly, in self-esteem levels. To fill this gap in the literature, in the present study changes in affect and self-esteem in 100 young (19–30 years) and 102 older adults (65–81 years) were assessed after participants experienced success and failure in a demanding cognitive task. Overall, the success-failure manipulation induced changes on affect states and on state self-esteem, not on trait self-esteem. Regarding age differences, older and young adults were affected to the same extent by experiences of successes and failures. Theoretical considerations of the empirical findings are provided in the general discussion.
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spelling pubmed-66911392019-08-23 The Impact of Failures and Successes on Affect and Self-Esteem in Young and Older Adults Rosi, Alessia Cavallini, Elena Gamboz, Nadia Vecchi, Tomaso Van Vugt, Floris Tijmen Russo, Riccardo Front Psychol Psychology Older adults are assumed to change their affect states in reaction to positive and negative stimuli across the life span. However, little is known about the impact of success and failure events on age-related changes in affect states and, particularly, in self-esteem levels. To fill this gap in the literature, in the present study changes in affect and self-esteem in 100 young (19–30 years) and 102 older adults (65–81 years) were assessed after participants experienced success and failure in a demanding cognitive task. Overall, the success-failure manipulation induced changes on affect states and on state self-esteem, not on trait self-esteem. Regarding age differences, older and young adults were affected to the same extent by experiences of successes and failures. Theoretical considerations of the empirical findings are provided in the general discussion. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6691139/ /pubmed/31447736 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01795 Text en Copyright © 2019 Rosi, Cavallini, Gamboz, Vecchi, Van Vugt and Russo. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Rosi, Alessia
Cavallini, Elena
Gamboz, Nadia
Vecchi, Tomaso
Van Vugt, Floris Tijmen
Russo, Riccardo
The Impact of Failures and Successes on Affect and Self-Esteem in Young and Older Adults
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title_short The Impact of Failures and Successes on Affect and Self-Esteem in Young and Older Adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6691139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31447736
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01795
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