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Positivity Effect in Selective Attention and Memory Retrieval of Emotional Information among Older Adults

  • THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
  • 2018, 31(4), pp.99-122
  • DOI : 10.35574/KJDP.2018.12.31.4.99
  • Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
  • Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science
  • Received : October 15, 2018
  • Accepted : December 3, 2018

Mi-Kyung Nam 1 BangHeeJeong 2

1인간발달복지연구소
2이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

Socioemotional selectivity theory maintains that an age-related positivity effect in cognitive processes such as attention and memory may reflect efforts at emotion regulation in older adults. Based on this, the study examines age differences in selective attention to emotional information and positivity effect in memory retrieval. Compared to the younger age group (aged 19-26 years), older adults (aged 65-84 years) showed relatively high levels of selective attention to emotional words than non-emotional ones, though not showing positive bias, and also recognized the positively valenced words more than the negatively valenced ones. These findings suggest that an age-related positivity effect in cognitive processes may reflect the process of emotion regulation that contributes to positive affective experiences and sense of well-being in older adults.

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