Affective bonds of adult children with living versus deceased parents

Article Abstract:

A study of bonds with living versus deceased parents assessed Israeli adult children's relations with mother and father. Bond intensity was not lower for deceased than for living parents, contrary to the hypothesis, but bond evaluation was higher for mother and father when both were deceased, indicating a developmental trajectory where affective bonds transcend parental death and normative mourning.

Attachment (Psychology), Bonding (Psychology)

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Viewing injustice: Greater emotion heterogeneity with age

Article Abstract:

A study examining age differences in emotion heterogeneity in response to controlled stimuli is presented. Findings consistent across gender and ethnicity showed older adults reported greater emotion heterogeneity which was related to a greater number of life experiences.

United States, Psychological research, Emotional development

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Beyond keeping active: concomitants of being a volunteer in old-old age

Article Abstract:

The concomitants of volunteering in the context of other lifestyle activities are examined. The findings suggest that the benefits of volunteering in late life are not reducible to those of other activities.

Evaluation, Aged volunteers, Elderly volunteers

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