Older adults report experiencing improved emotional health, such as more intense positive
affect and less intense negative affect. However, there are mixed findings on whether older …

Older adults report surprisingly positive affective experience. The idea that older adults are
better at emotion regulation has emerged as an intuitively appealing explanation for why …

Highlights•Studies of daily life show improved emotional functioning as people age.•Lab
studies show mixed evidence for age-related improvements in emotion regulation.•Older …

Objectives Previous research demonstrates that younger and older adults prefer distraction
over engagement (reappraisal) when regulating high-intensity negative emotion. Older …

The study of emotion across the adult lifespan requires an understanding of how life
circumstances change with age. With this knowledge, we can predict when age is related to …

Reviews lifespan developmental findings about emotional experience in adults (from young
to very old), as well as the cognitive processes we hypothesize are related to age …

Older age is normatively associated with losses in physical, cognitive, and social domains.
Despite these losses, older adults often report higher levels of well-being than do younger …

Several influential theories posit that improvements in emotion regulation contribute to
enhanced emotional well-being in older adulthood. However, surprisingly little is known …

Abstract Models of aging and emotion hypothesize age differences in emotion regulation—
in frequency, use of strategies, and/or effectiveness—but research to date has been mixed …

Emotional stability, as indicated by low affect variability and low affective reactivity to daily
events, for example, tends to increase across the adult life span. This study investigated a …