Emotion regulation in older adulthood: roles of executive functioning and social relationships

Marcie L King Johnson; Anne I Roche; Kristian Markon; Natalie L Denburg

doi:10.1080/13825585.2022.2027331

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Emotion regulation in older adulthood: roles of executive functioning and social relationships

Marcie L King Johnson, Anne I Roche, Kristian Markon and Natalie L Denburg

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, Vol.ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp.1-18

01/20/2022

DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2022.2027331

PMCID: PMC9296691

PMID: 35057711

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Abstract

Although emotion regulation (ER) is often maintained or even enhanced in older adulthood, resources used to promote ER in later life are not well understood. The current study examined how executive functioning (EF) and social relationships are related to ER in older adults (N=90; Age: M=74.98, SD=5.41). Results showed associations between higher shifting performance (a behavioral index of EF) and higher use of cognitive reappraisal, an ER strategy. This effect was moderated by social relationships, such that those with lower shifting performance reported higher levels of reappraisal in the presence of positive social relationships. Positive social relationships were also associated with lower use of expressive suppression, another ER strategy. Additional analyses did not reveal associations between ER and other cognitive domains. These findings contribute to current understandings of how cognitive and social resources contribute to ER in older adulthood and provide important potential future research and intervention targets.

Aging

Emotion-regulation

executive functioning

older adult

social relationships

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Title: Subtitle: Emotion regulation in older adulthood: roles of executive functioning and social relationships
Creators: Marcie L King Johnson - University of Iowa
Anne I Roche - Mayo Clinic
Kristian Markon - University of Iowa
Natalie L Denburg - University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, Vol.ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp.1-18
DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2022.2027331
PMID: 35057711
PMCID: PMC9296691
NLM abbreviation: Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn
ISSN: 1382-5585
eISSN: 1744-4128
Publisher: Routledge
Grant note: DOI: 10.13039/100000002, name: National Institutes of Health, award: AG 046539; name: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, award: 1546595
Language: English
Electronic publication date: 01/20/2022
Academic Unit: Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984211685802771

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