Affective Experience in Adulthood and Old Age: The Role of Affective Arousal and Perceived Affect Regulation

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 349-362

  Kessler, Eva Marie ^a   Staudinger, Ursula M ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

affect; affect regulation; emotional development; future time perspective; resilience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AROUSAL; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 66549116950     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015352     Document Type: Article

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