COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL MATURITY IN ADULTHOOD AND AGING

成年期和衰老期的认知和情感成熟度

• 批准号: 6752639
• 负责人: GISELA LABOUVIE-VIEF
• 金额: $ 8.44万
• 依托单位: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-07-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6752639
• 关键词: African American; Alaskan Native American; Asians; Hispanic Americans; Native Americans; adult human (21+); age difference; aging; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognition; coping; developmental psychology; emotional adjustment; gender difference; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; mental health epidemiology; outcomes research; psychological aspect of aging; psychological defense mechanism; psychological models; quality of life; questionnaires; racial /ethnic difference; socioenvironment

DESCRIPTION (adapted from investigator's abstract): This sequential-longitudinal investigation extends an examination of patterns of cognitive-emotional development across the life span. Research conducted thus far during the initial project period has provided evidence for two psychological components of adult socioemotional development: reflective cognition and maturation of coping. Each is associated with somewhat different predictors/mechanisms: reflective cognition reflects the effects of education and acculturation, while maturity of coping/defense mechanisms reflects a secure relationship history. However the extent to which older individuals performance reflects age or cohort, and the extent to which they reflect flexible affect modulation versus inflexible affect inhibition, remains to be demonstrated. To examine these questions, a longitudinal sample of 330 individuals will be recontracted year 2 of the project. The resulting estimated 300 participants will be distributed over seven age groups from 15 to 93 years, with nearly equal numbers of males and females in each age group. Individuals will respond to cognitive and, socioemotional context and outcome measures. In addition, a subsample (N=150) of the original sample will be selected for an in-depth interview during which measures of physiological reactivity and facial expression of emotion will be interfaced with self-assessments (self-reports) of emotional reactivity. Finally, a new subsample of 154 African-Americans will be matched in age, gender and education to this longitudinal subsample. Analyses will examine the following issues: (a) if age gradients reported so far generalize across time; (b) if changes in reflective cognition and maturity are related to different predictor variables; (c) the degree to which study variables are related to survival; and (d) if the structural models so far established generalizes across time and cultural group; (e) age related differences in affect expression and affect repression/inhibition and (f) if affect repression/inhibition is involved in maintaining a sense of well-being and apparently good coping especially in older individuals.

描述（根据调查员的摘要改编）： 顺序长期研究扩展了对模式的检查 在整个生命周期内认知情感发展。 研究进行了 到目前为止，在初始项目期间为两个提供了证据 成人社会情感发展的心理组成部分：反思性 应对的认知和成熟。 每个都有某种联系 不同的预测因素/机制：反思性认知反映了影响 教育和适应，而应对/防御机制的成熟度 反映了安全的关系历史。 但是年龄较大的程度 个人的表现反映了年龄或队列，以及他们的程度 反映灵活的影响调制与不灵活的情感抑制， 还有待证明。 为了检查这些问题，将有330个人的纵向样本 重新提取项目的第二年。 由此产生的估计300 参与者将在15至93岁的七个年龄组中分发 每个年龄段的男性和女性数量几乎相等。 个人将对认知和社会情感背景以及 结果措施。 另外，原始样品的子样本（n = 150） 将选择深入面试 情绪的生理反应性和面部表达将被连接 具有情感反应性的自我评估（自我报告）。 最后，一个 154名非裔美国人的新子样本将与年龄，性别和 对这个纵向子样本进行教育。 分析将检查以下问题：（a）如果年龄段报告 到目前为止，跨时间概括； （b）如果反思性认知的变化和 成熟度与不同的预测变量有关。 （c）学位 哪些研究变量与生存有关； （d）如果结构 到目前为止，模型在时间和文化群体之间概括了。 （E） 情感表达和影响的年龄相关差异 抑制/抑制作用和（f）是否涉及抑制/抑制 保持幸福感，显然是良好的应对 老年人。