Schweizer, S;
Stretton, J;
van Belle, J;
Price, D;
Calder, AJ;
Cam-CAN, .;
Dalgleish, T;
(2019)
Age-related decline in positive emotional reactivity and emotion regulation in a population-derived cohort.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
, 14
(6)
pp. 623-631.
10.1093/scan/nsz036.
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Abstract
Human older age ushers in functional decline across the majority of cognitive domains. A notable exception seems be affective processing, with older people reporting higher levels of emotional well-being. Here we evaluated age-related changes in emotional reactivity and regulation in a representative subsample (n=104; 23-88 years) of the population-derived Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience cohort. Performance on a film-based emotion reactivity and regulation task in the MRI scanner showed an age-related decline in positive reactivity, alongside a similar decline in the capacity to down-regulate negative affect. Decreased positivity with age was associated with reduced activation in the middle frontal gyrus. These findings, from the largest neuroimaging investigation to-date, provide no support for age-related increases in positive emotional reactivity.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Age-related decline in positive emotional reactivity and emotion regulation in a population-derived cohort |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1093/scan/nsz036 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz036 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Positivity, Emotion Regulation, Aging, Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, Middle Frontal Gyrus |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10073633 |
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