Age-related patterns of variability in self-descriptions: implications for everyday affective experience
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Intraindividual variability in self-descriptions was examined among adults ranging from 18 to 94 years old. It was shown that greater variability was related to greater intensity of negative and positive affect across all age groups. It was also shown that women exhibited greater variability than men.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2003
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Motivational changes in response to blocked goals and foreshortened time: testing alternatives to socioemotional selectivity theory
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According to the socioemotional selectivity theory, people consider time limited and therefore prefer goals that are aimed at deriving emotional meaning from life. The constraints on time have effect on social motivation, which cannot be explained by goal disengagement or desire for emotional support.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2004
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Age and emotional experience during mutual reminiscing
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The age differences in the emotional experiences involved in talking about past events are examined. The findings are discussed in terms of socioemotional selectivity theory and the literature on reminiscence and life review.
Publication Name: Psychology and Aging
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0882-7974
Year: 2003
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