Older adults' affective experiences across 100 days are less variable and less complex than younger adults'

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 194-208

  Brose, Annette ^a,b   De Roover, Kim ^a   Ceulemans, Eva ^a   Kuppens, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clusterwise simultaneous component analysis; Emotion differentiation; Emotional aging; Emotional complexity; Positive and negative affect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CO OCCURRENCE INDEX; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATION INDEX; EMOTION ASSESSMENT; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; AGING; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925779783     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038690     Document Type: Article

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