Don't stop believin': Emotion beliefs and daily well-being across adulthood.

IF 3.6 1区心理学 Q1 GERONTOLOGY Psychology and Aging Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI:10.1037/pag0000951

Jocelyn A Rutledge, Meaghan A Barlow

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Emotion control beliefs reflect the extent to which people believe their emotions can and should be controlled and have been linked to psychological well-being. However, research has yet to examine age-related differences in these beliefs and their daily associations with well-being. Accordingly, the present research examines age differences in daily emotion control beliefs and their within-person associations with positive and negative affect. To do so, we used 14-day daily diary data from an adult community sample (younger adults: 18-36 years old, N = 72; older adults: 66-92 years old, N = 66). The results revealed that older adults reported higher average can emotion control beliefs than younger adults, but no age differences were observed for average should emotion control beliefs. Further, multilevel models revealed that, in general, having stronger beliefs that one can control their emotions was associated with higher positive affect and lower negative affect across age, whereas having stronger beliefs that one should control their emotions was only associated with higher negative affect in younger adults. Examining daily variations, while both age groups also experienced significant increases in positive affect and decreases in negative affect on days they believed they could control their emotion more than usual, the daily association with positive affect was stronger among young adults. Further, younger, but not older, adults experienced decreases in positive affect and increases in negative affect on days in which they believed they should control their emotions more than usual, while older adults' affect did not significantly change. These findings add to theory and research on lifespan development and emotional aging by highlighting that emotion control beliefs are differentially associated with well-being, and these associations change across the adult lifespan. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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“不要停止相信”：情感信念和成年后的日常幸福感。

情绪控制信念反映了人们认为自己的情绪可以和应该被控制的程度，并与心理健康有关。然而，研究还没有检验这些信念与年龄相关的差异，以及它们与幸福感的日常联系。因此，本研究考察了日常情绪控制信念的年龄差异及其与积极和消极情绪的内在联系。为此，我们使用了来自成人社区样本的14天每日日记数据（年轻人：18-36岁，N = 72；老年人：66-92岁，N = 66）。结果显示，老年人的平均“可以”情绪控制信念高于年轻人，但平均“应该”情绪控制信念没有年龄差异。此外，多层次模型显示，总体而言，在各个年龄段，认为自己可以控制自己情绪的信念越强，积极情绪越高，消极情绪越低，而认为自己应该控制自己情绪的信念越强，年轻人的消极情绪越高。检查日常变化，虽然两个年龄组在他们认为自己比平时更能控制自己的情绪的日子里，积极情绪的显著增加和消极情绪的显著减少，但在年轻人中，积极情绪的日常关联更强。此外，年轻人（而不是老年人）在他们认为自己应该比平时更多地控制自己的情绪的日子里，积极情绪会减少，消极情绪会增加，而老年人的情绪没有明显变化。这些发现增加了关于寿命发展和情绪衰老的理论和研究，强调了情绪控制信念与幸福感的不同联系，这些联系在成年后会发生变化。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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期刊介绍： Psychology and Aging publishes original articles on adult development and aging. Such original articles include reports of research that may be applied, biobehavioral, clinical, educational, experimental (laboratory, field, or naturalistic studies), methodological, or psychosocial. Although the emphasis is on original research investigations, occasional theoretical analyses of research issues, practical clinical problems, or policy may appear, as well as critical reviews of a content area in adult development and aging. Clinical case studies that have theoretical significance are also appropriate. Brief reports are acceptable with the author"s agreement not to submit a full report to another journal.