Age difference in memory for emotional messages: Do older people always remember the positive?

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted to examine the positivity bias among two age groups 18-27 years and 52-85 years of Hong Kong Chinese, by presenting them with health-promoting messages that had the same content but different background music. The result showed that older Hong Kong Chinese remembered the most information from messages with negative, relative to positive or neutral, background music, while the younger adults did not show these biases.

China, Science & research, Hong Kong, Research, Age (Psychology), Age differences (Psychology), Memory in old age, Old age memory

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Fear of crime and elderly people: Key factors that determine fear of crime among elderly people in West Flanders

Article Abstract:

The determinants of fear of crime among elderly people in West Flanders, Belgium are analyzed. It is shown that firstly, four socio-demographic variables, gender, income, physical vulnerability and loneliness, are significantly related to fear of crime, secondly, neighborhood variables in both social and cultural life play an important role in the genesis of fear of crime, and thirdly reading the newspaper decreases fear of crime.

Belgium, Fear of crime

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Religion, religiosity and spirituality in the biopsychosocial model of health and ageing

Article Abstract:

The issue of causality and possible mediators of effects of religiosity/spirituality on health outcomes is discussed paying special attention to possible psychological mediators. The differences in the associations between members of various cultural and religious groups are discussed and it is stated that there may be theological problems with the use of religion to promoting health.

Public affairs, Influence, Health, Religious aspects, Religiousness

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