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AGING AND EMOTION REGULATION IN THE JUDGMENT OF FACIAL
EMOTION
by
Jennifer L. Kellough
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Jennifer L. Kellough
Object Description
| Title | Aging and emotion regulation in the judgment of facial emotion |
| Author | Kellough, Jennifer L. |
| Author email | kellough@usc.edu; jennkello@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-09-08 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-11-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Knight, Bob G. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Gatz, Margaret Mather, Mara |
| Abstract | Prior research has established differences between older and younger adults’ (1) attention for emotional stimuli, (2) retrieval of emotional memories, and (3) appraisal of their own emotional experiences. These age differences are seen as evidence of emotion regulation, which is thought to service shifting emotional goals in later life. The current study sought to explore emotion regulation further by assessing age differences in the interpretation of others’ emotions. Specifically, we examined age differences in the judgment of emotion from facial expressions. Our judgment paradigm allowed for the evaluation of two prominent forms of emotion regulation described in the literature, affect optimization and affect complexity. Results showed that older adults did exhibit affect optimization and affect complexity in their judgments of the facial expressions. Specifically, older adults perceived more positive affect and more mixed affect in the expressions compared to younger adults. Additionally, when future time perspective was experimentally manipulated for each age group, age differences in positive affect were reduced and perception of negative affect increased across age groups. Findings are discussed within the framework of developmental lifespan theories of emotion. |
| Keyword | aging; emotion; emotion regulation; affect optimization; affect complexity |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2726 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Kellough, Jennifer L. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Kellough-3386 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Kellough-3386.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | AGING AND EMOTION REGULATION IN THE JUDGMENT OF FACIAL EMOTION by Jennifer L. Kellough A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Jennifer L. Kellough |
