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Studying Emotions in the Elderly

  • Stefanie Kremer*
  • , Louise den Uijl
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of our current understanding of emotions and their measurement in older people. The first part briefly reviews our current understanding of both "the elderly" in general and various facets of emotional aging, such as emotional experiences, emotion regulation, emotion perception, emotion-related attention, and memory. The multidirectionality of the late-life development in the different emotion-related functional domains is stressed. The second part describes published results on the application of various emotion measurement tools in older populations. For all these methods, their general suitability for emotion measurement in elderly populations is discussed and, where applicable, directions for future research are pointed out.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEmotion Measurement
PublisherElsevier
Pages537-571
ISBN (Print)9780081005095, 9780081005088
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • Aging
  • Emotional aging
  • Facial expression
  • Mental health
  • Physiological emotion measures
  • Self-reported emotion measures
  • Seniors
  • Well-being

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