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Carsten Wrosch
59 works
· latest 2025
· 7 institutions
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ORCID 0000-0001-8845-2260
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Calmness and excitement intensity and variability in old age: Linking stressful circumstances to well-being and health.
Emotion
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2025
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3 authors
2
citations
Control strategies for managing health threats in older adults
Current Opinion in Psychology
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2023
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2 authors
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review
5
citations
Changes in Purpose in Life and Low-Grade Chronic Inflammation Across Older Adulthood
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
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2023
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4 authors
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Open access
4
citations
When daily emotions spill into life satisfaction: Age differences in emotion globalizing.
Psychology and Aging
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2023
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5 authors
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Open access
4
citations
Commentary: goal disengagement—past, processes, and future
Motivation and Emotion
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2022
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2 authors
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editorial
12
citations
Discrete negative emotions and goal disengagement in older adulthood: Context effects and associations with emotional well-being.
Emotion
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2022
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5 authors
16
citations
Age differences in sadness reactivity and variability.
Psychology and Aging
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2021
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4 authors
5
citations
A tale of two emotions: The diverging salience and health consequences of calmness and excitement in old age.
Psychology and Aging
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2021
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4 authors
21
citations
A Tale of Two Emotions: The Diverging Salience and Health Consequences of Calmness and Excitement in Old Age
Innovation in Aging
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2020
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4 authors
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Open access
3
citations
Optimism versus pessimism as predictors of physical health: A comprehensive reanalysis of dispositional optimism research.
American Psychologist
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2020
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6 authors
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Open access
128
citations
Family Business Succession: What’s Motivation Got to Do With It?
Family Business Review
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2019
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4 authors
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Open access
140
citations
Negative emotions and chronic physical illness: A lifespan developmental perspective.
Health Psychology
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2019
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7 authors
20
citations
Is anger, but not sadness, associated with chronic inflammation and illness in older adulthood?
Psychology and Aging
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2019
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4 authors
29
citations
Downgrading goal-relevant resources in action crises: The moderating role of goal reengagement capacities and effects on well-being
Motivation and Emotion
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2019
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3 authors
13
citations
Agency and Motivation in Adulthood and Old Age
Annual Review of Psychology
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2018
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3 authors
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review
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Open access
214
citations
Age-related changes in older adults’ anger and sadness: The role of perceived control.
Psychology and Aging
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2018
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3 authors
26
citations
Emotional Development in Old Age
Springer eBooks
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2017
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2 authors
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other
9
citations
Speaking about feelings: Further evidence for multidirectional age differences in anger and sadness.
Psychology and Aging
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2016
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5 authors
39
citations
Control Strategies for Managing Physical Health Problems in Old Age
Oxford University Press eBooks
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2016
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3 authors
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chapter
9
citations
Do the Emotional Benefits of Optimism Vary Across Older Adulthood? A Life Span Perspective
Journal of Personality
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2016
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3 authors
41
citations
Control strategies for managing physical health problems in old age: Evidence for the motivational theory of life-span development
Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)
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2016
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4 authors
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chapter
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Open access
5
citations
Goal Adjustment Theory
The Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging
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2015
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3 authors
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other
22
citations
Goal disengagement capacities and severity of disease across older adulthood
International Journal of Behavioral Development
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2015
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2 authors
17
citations
Challenges to developmental regulation across the life course
International Journal of Behavioral Development
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2015
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2 authors
42
citations
Goal Management Across Adulthood and Old Age: The Adaptive Value of Primary and Secondary Control
Routledge eBooks
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2015
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3 authors
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chapter
26
citations
Emotional Development in Old Age
Springer eBooks
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2015
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2 authors
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other
10
citations
Chronic illness and loneliness in older adulthood: The role of self-protective control strategies.
Health Psychology
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2014
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3 authors
86
citations
Emotional aging: a discrete emotions perspective
Frontiers in Psychology
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2014
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3 authors
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Open access
113
citations
Goal Adjustment Capacities, Subjective Well‐being, and Physical Health
Social and Personality Psychology Compass
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2013
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3 authors
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Open access
163
citations
Satisfaction with social support in older adulthood: The influence of social support changes and goal adjustment capacities.
Psychology and Aging
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2013
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3 authors
14
citations
Associations between dispositional optimism and diurnal cortisol in a community sample: When stress is perceived as higher than normal.
Health Psychology
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2013
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3 authors
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Open access
81
citations
A Lines-of-Defense Model for Managing Health Threats: A Review
Gerontology
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2013
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3 authors
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review
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Open access
80
citations
Developmental regulation across the life span: Toward a new synthesis.
Developmental Psychology
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2012
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3 authors
204
citations
Retiring From the Family Business
Family Business Review
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2011
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3 authors
56
citations
Goal disengagement, functional disability, and depressive symptoms in old age.
Health Psychology
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2011
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2 authors
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Open access
96
citations
Self-Regulation of Unattainable Goals and Pathways to Quality of Life
Oxford University Press eBooks
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2010
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1 author
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book
66
citations
A motivational theory of life-span development.
Psychological Review
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2010
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3 authors
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Open access
1,485
citations
Testing Continuity and Activity Variables as Predictors of Positive and Negative Affect in Retirement
The Journals of Gerontology Series B
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2009
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6 authors
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Open access
45
citations
Depressive symptoms can be useful: Self-regulatory and emotional benefits of dysphoric mood in adolescence.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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2009
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2 authors
143
citations
I'm better off than most other people: The role of social comparisons for coping with regret in young adulthood and old age.
Psychology and Aging
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2008
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3 authors
52
citations
Health-Engagement Control Strategies and 2-Year Changes in Older Adults' Physical Health
Psychological Science
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2008
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2 authors
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Open access
74
citations
An Exploration of the Generational Differences in Levels of Control Held Among Family Businesses Approaching Succession
Family Business Review
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2007
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3 authors
114
citations
You've Gotta Know When to Fold 'Em
Psychological Science
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2007
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2 authors
142
citations
Giving Up on Unattainable Goals: Benefits for Health?
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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2007
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4 authors
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Open access
300
citations
Regret intensity, diurnal cortisol secretion, and physical health in older individuals: Evidence for directional effects and protective factors.
Psychology and Aging
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2007
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4 authors
68
citations
Self‐Regulation Processes and Health: The Importance of Optimism and Goal Adjustment
Journal of Personality
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2006
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4 authors
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review
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Open access
365
citations
Self-Regulation of Common Age-Related Challenges: Benefits for Older Adults’ Psychological and Physical Health
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
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2006
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3 authors
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Open access
81
citations
The Life Engagement Test: Assessing Purpose in Life
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
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2006
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8 authors
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Open access
539
citations
Regret and quality of life across the adult life span: The influence of disengagement and available future goals.
Psychology and Aging
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2005
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3 authors
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Open access
175
citations
Health Stresses and Depressive Symptomatology in the Elderly
Current Directions in Psychological Science
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2004
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3 authors
91
citations
Adaptive Self-Regulation of Unattainable Goals: Goal Disengagement, Goal Reengagement, and Subjective Well-Being
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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2003
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5 authors
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Open access
990
citations
The Importance of Goal Disengagement in Adaptive Self-Regulation: When Giving Up is Beneficial
Self and Identity
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2003
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4 authors
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Open access
652
citations
Personality and quality of life: The importance of optimism and goal adjustment
Quality of Life Research
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2003
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2 authors
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review
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Open access
362
citations
Perceived control of life regrets: good for young and bad for old adults.
PubMed
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2002
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2 authors
131
citations
Peceived control of life regrets: Good for young and bad for old adults.
Psychology and Aging
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2002
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2 authors
119
citations
Self-Regulation of Normative and Non-Normative Developmental Challenges1
Human Development
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2001
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2 authors
97
citations
Primary and secondary control strategies for managing health and financial stress across adulthood.
Psychology and Aging
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2000
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3 authors
334
citations
Control processes before and after passing a developmental deadline: Activation and deactivation of intimate relationship goals.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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1999
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2 authors
234
citations
Developmental regulation in adulthood: Optimization in primary and secondary control - A multiscale questionnaire (OPS-Scales). Technical report
MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society)
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1998
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3 authors
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report
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Open access
40
citations