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A Tale of Two Emotions: The Diverging Salience and Health Consequences of Calmness and Excitement in Old Age
Using two studies, we examined the late life prevalence and health consequences of discrete positive emotions posited to motivate rest and recovery (calmness) or pursuit of novelty and stimulation (excitement). Study 1 assessed the salience of these discrete emotions in older adults (n=73, Mage=73)...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7741750/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2138 |
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author | Hamm, Jeremy Wrosch, Carsten Barlow, Meaghan Kunzmann, Ute |
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description | Using two studies, we examined the late life prevalence and health consequences of discrete positive emotions posited to motivate rest and recovery (calmness) or pursuit of novelty and stimulation (excitement). Study 1 assessed the salience of these discrete emotions in older adults (n=73, Mage=73) relative to younger adults (n=73, Mage=23) over a one-week period. Multilevel models showed that older (vs. younger) adults reported higher calmness and lower excitement. Study 2 examined the longitudinal health consequences of calmness and excitement in old age (n=336, Mage=75), as moderated by perceived control. Multilevel growth models showed that calmness, but not excitement, buffered against 10-year declines in psychological well-being (perceived stress, depressive symptoms) and physical health (physical symptoms, chronic conditions) for older adults with low perceived control. Results suggest that positive emotions with disparate motivational functions become more (calmness) or less (excitement) salient and have diverging implications for health in old age. |
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spelling | pubmed-77417502020-12-21 A Tale of Two Emotions: The Diverging Salience and Health Consequences of Calmness and Excitement in Old Age Hamm, Jeremy Wrosch, Carsten Barlow, Meaghan Kunzmann, Ute Innov Aging Abstracts Using two studies, we examined the late life prevalence and health consequences of discrete positive emotions posited to motivate rest and recovery (calmness) or pursuit of novelty and stimulation (excitement). Study 1 assessed the salience of these discrete emotions in older adults (n=73, Mage=73) relative to younger adults (n=73, Mage=23) over a one-week period. Multilevel models showed that older (vs. younger) adults reported higher calmness and lower excitement. Study 2 examined the longitudinal health consequences of calmness and excitement in old age (n=336, Mage=75), as moderated by perceived control. Multilevel growth models showed that calmness, but not excitement, buffered against 10-year declines in psychological well-being (perceived stress, depressive symptoms) and physical health (physical symptoms, chronic conditions) for older adults with low perceived control. Results suggest that positive emotions with disparate motivational functions become more (calmness) or less (excitement) salient and have diverging implications for health in old age. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7741750/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2138 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Hamm, Jeremy Wrosch, Carsten Barlow, Meaghan Kunzmann, Ute A Tale of Two Emotions: The Diverging Salience and Health Consequences of Calmness and Excitement in Old Age |
title | A Tale of Two Emotions: The Diverging Salience and Health Consequences of Calmness and Excitement in Old Age |
title_full | A Tale of Two Emotions: The Diverging Salience and Health Consequences of Calmness and Excitement in Old Age |
title_fullStr | A Tale of Two Emotions: The Diverging Salience and Health Consequences of Calmness and Excitement in Old Age |
title_full_unstemmed | A Tale of Two Emotions: The Diverging Salience and Health Consequences of Calmness and Excitement in Old Age |
title_short | A Tale of Two Emotions: The Diverging Salience and Health Consequences of Calmness and Excitement in Old Age |
title_sort | tale of two emotions: the diverging salience and health consequences of calmness and excitement in old age |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7741750/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2138 |
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