The relation between short-term emotion dynamics and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis.

M Houben, W Van Den Noortgate… - Psychological …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Not only how good or bad people feel on average, but also how their feelings fluctuate
across time is crucial for psychological health. The last 2 decades have witnessed a surge in …

Emotional aging: Recent findings and future trends

S Scheibe, LL Carstensen - Journals of Gerontology Series B …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Contrasting cognitive and physical decline, research in emotional aging suggests that most
older adults enjoy high levels of affective well-being and emotional stability into their 70s …

Emotional experience improves with age: evidence based on over 10 years of experience sampling.

LL Carstensen, B Turan, S Scheibe, N Ram… - Psychology and …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Recent evidence suggests that emotional well-being improves from early adulthood to old
age. This study used experience-sampling to examine the developmental course of …

Selective narrowing of social networks across adulthood is associated with improved emotional experience in daily life

T English, LL Carstensen - International journal of …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Past research has documented age differences in the size and composition of social
networks that suggest that networks grow smaller with age and include an increasingly …

Mix it to fix it: Emotion regulation variability in daily life.

ES Blanke, A Brose, EK Kalokerinos, Y Erbas… - Emotion, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Emotion regulation (ER) strategies are often categorized as universally adaptive or
maladaptive. However, it has recently been proposed that this view is overly simplistic …

Time-structured and net intraindividual variability: tools for examining the development of dynamic characteristics and processes.

N Ram, D Gerstorf - Psychology and aging, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
The study of intraindividual variability is the study of fluctuations, oscillations, adaptations,
and “noise” in behavioral outcomes that manifest on microtime scales. This article provides a …

Neural underpinnings of within-person variability in cognitive functioning.

SWS MacDonald, SC Li, L Bäckman - Psychology and aging, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Increased intraindividual variability (IIV), reflecting within-person fluctuations in behavioral
performance, is commonly observed in aging as well as in select disorders including …

The relevance of control beliefs for health and aging

ME Lachman, SD Neupert, S Agrigoroaei - Handbook of the psychology of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Adults and those in later life with a high sense of control appear better
off on many indicators of health and well-being. However, those who have a lower sense of …

How COVID-19 affected mental well-being: An 11-week trajectories of daily well-being of Koreans amidst COVID-19 by age, gender and region

I Choi, JH Kim, N Kim, E Choi, J Choi, HW Suk, J Na - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The present study examined the daily well-being of Koreans (n= 353,340) for 11 weeks
during the COVID-19 pandemic (January 20–April 7). We analyzed whether and how life …

Emotion dynamics across adulthood in everyday life: Older adults are more emotionally stable and better at regulating desires.

DA Burr, JJ Castrellon, DH Zald, GR Samanez-Larkin - Emotion, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …