Emotional complexity and its effect on psychological distress as a function of chronological age and subjective distance-to-death

Amit Shrira · Ehud Bodner · Yuval Palgi

16 citations0/0 files storedAging & Mental Health

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Aging and Gerontology Research Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: In light of mixed evidence regarding the associations between age, emotional complexity, and psychological distress, this study examined emotional complexity and its effect on psychological distress as a function of age and subjective distance-to-death. METHOD: A sample of 188 participants (age range = 29-100) rated their subjective distance-to-death and psychological distress, and reported their emotions across 14 days. RESULTS: Emotional complexity was unrelated to age, but negatively related to feeling closer to death. Moreover, emotional complexity was negatively related to psychological distress among those feeling closer to death. CONCLUSION: Results suggest that when death is perceived to be nearer, emotional complexity is hampered, yet becomes relevant in buffering psychological distress.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 16 citations exist upstream.

References

1988Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.2009New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings 2006The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development 2000Emotional experience in everyday life across the adult life span.2010Emotional experience improves with age: Evidence based on over 10 years of experience sampling.2010Strength and vulnerability integration: A model of emotional well-being across adulthood.2010Late-life decline in well-being across adulthood in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States: Something is seriously wrong at the end of life.2002Affect optimization and affect complexity: Modes and styles of regulation in adulthood.

Cited by

2022The Association Between Views of Aging and Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Older Adults: Findings From Two Samples 2022Existential ageing and dying: A scoping review 2022Future Time Perspective, Priority of Social Goals, and Friend Networks in Old Age: Evidence for Socioemotional Selectivity Theory Using Subjective Age Gap 2020Comparing negative emotion differentiation in young and older individuals: A picture‐based study

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.