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Stability and Change in Affective Experience Across the Adult Life Span: Analyses With a National Sample From Germany

Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data from a national sample spanning the adult life span, age differences in anger and sadness were explored. The cross-sectional and longitudinal findings consistently suggest that the frequency of anger increases during young adulthood, but then shows a steady decrease until old age. By contrast, the frequency of sadness remains stable over most of adulthood and begins to increase in old age. In addition, the effects of age on happiness were investigated; the cross-sectional evidence speaks for a steady decrease in happiness across age groups, but within-person decline in happiness was only evident in old age. Together the findings provide further evidence for multidirectional age differences in affective experience and suggest that the overall quality of affective experience may deteriorate in old age.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Emotion ; ISSN: 1528-3542 ; Volume: 13 ; Year: 2013 ; Issue: 6 ; Pages: 1086-1095 ; Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Thema
sadness
anger
happiness
aging
effect
emotion
adult life-span
longitudinal change
Emotion
Glücksforschung
Alter
Lebensverlauf

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kunzmann, Ute
Richter, David
Schmukle, Stefan C.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
American Psychological Association
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
(wo)
Washington D.C.
(wann)
2013-12

DOI
doi:10.1037/a0033572
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Beteiligte

  • Kunzmann, Ute
  • Richter, David
  • Schmukle, Stefan C.
  • American Psychological Association
  • ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

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  • 2013-12

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