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Age-Related Effects of Online Emotion Regulation Strategies on Mood and Memory

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dc.contributor.advisor Blanchard-Fields, Fredda
dc.contributor.author Coats, Abby Heckman en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Anderson Smith
dc.contributor.committeeMember Hertzog, Christopher
dc.contributor.committeeMember Feldman, Jack
dc.contributor.committeeMember Ute Fischer
dc.contributor.department Psychology en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-02-07T18:42:22Z
dc.date.available 2008-02-07T18:42:22Z
dc.date.issued 2007-11-14 en_US
dc.description.abstract Research suggests that older adults have enhanced emotional outcomes and use different emotion regulation strategies (e.g., more distraction and positive reappraisal) relative to young adults. The present study investigated the mood and memory-related effects of these strategies in young and older adults. Participants watched a sad film clip while being instructed to use specific emotion regulation strategies (i.e., avoiding negativity, focusing on positivity, focusing on negativity, or no instructions). Young adults who were instructed to avoid focusing on negativity showed better mood outcomes and more positive memory for the film compared to non-instructed young adults. Instructions to down-regulate emotions did not affect older adults, possibly because they used such strategies spontaneously. Older adults increased dispositional tendency to focus on positive stimuli in their everyday lives partially explained older adults greater mood improvement. The results have implications for the effectiveness of particular emotion regulation strategies and for the generalizability of the positivity effect. en_US
dc.description.degree Ph.D. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/19820
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Negative en_US
dc.subject Age en_US
dc.subject Sad en_US
dc.subject Sadness en_US
dc.subject Attention en_US
dc.subject Rumination en_US
dc.subject Aging en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Emotions and cognition
dc.subject.lcsh Age (Psychology)
dc.subject.lcsh Older people
dc.title Age-Related Effects of Online Emotion Regulation Strategies on Mood and Memory en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.corporatename College of Sciences
local.contributor.corporatename School of Psychology
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