Now You See It, Now You Don't: Age Differences in Affective Reactivity to Social Tensions

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 645-653

  Charles, Susan Turk ^a   Piazza, Jennifer R ^a   Luong, Gloria ^a   Almeida, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; emotion; emotion regulation; stressor reactivity; well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SOCIAL STRESS; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSION; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 70349272584     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016673     Document Type: Article

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