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The Role of Neighbourhood Social and Built Environments on Social Interactions and Community Wellbeing Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in Abbas Rajabifard, Greg Foliente, Daniel Paez, COVID-19 Pandemic, Geospatial Information, and Community Resilience, 2021
Socioemotional selectivity theory explains that peoples' social networks are changing over time [20]. Younger people' s social interactions are claimed to be future-oriented with the aim of gaining information, experiences and new social contacts [21]. Older people, on the other hand, have been found to prefer smaller, but emotionally meaningful and satisfying contacts [21]. It is thus expected that the importance of social and built environments in social interactions frequency and satisfaction is different in different age groups. Therefore, a follow up study that included younger, middle aged and older Melburnians were carried out. Surprisingly, the study reached similar conclusions across different age groups [22].
Behaviours
Published in Emmanuel Tsekleves, Rachel Cooper, Design for Health, 2017
Gabriella Spinelli, Massimo Micocci, Marco Ajovalasit
The relation between ageing and systems 1 and 2 has been evidenced in several studies. Age seems to be unequivocally linked to a decline of deliberative skills due to a less effective information processing (Salthouse, 1992), learning deficit (Kausler, 1990), inability to filter out irrelevant or false information (Hasher and Zacks, 1988), deterioration of the executive functions (Amieva et al., 2003) and numeracy skills (Kirsh et al., 2002). Less clear are the effects of ageing on the affective system. The most significant theoretical contribution explaining the role of emotions in decision-making among older adults is the socioemotional selectivity theory (Carstensen, 2006). This perspective argues that older adults are more aware of their nearing end of life and consequently they rely more heavily on the affective system in order to achieve positive outcomes. Studies have provided evidence that greater recall of positive advertisements and of emotion-laden information take place among older people (Carstensen and Turk- , 1994; Carstensen, 1993).
Aging Gracefully A Global Perspective
Published in K. Rao Poduri, Geriatric Rehabilitation, 2017
In conclusion, information technology revolution in the recent years has an impact, in that older adults feel left out. The people in their 20s and 30s are at the center of the information age and the effect of the information age on the older adults also may dictate the view on how they perceive themselves. To combat the various deficits such as mobility difficulties, social isolation, and loneliness that accompany older adults, Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab (TAGlab) was formed in 200914 and their mission is to enable full participation in society by individuals with special needs. As the older adults outnumber the youth, they face several challenges that may include maintaining self-esteem, coping with vulnerability,15 and preparing for retirement. Socioemotional selectivity theory says that older adults invest greater resources in emotionally meaningful activities and focus on positivity than negativity. These attitudes in turn may help to cope with age-related social and health issues and aim toward aging gracefully.
Information Avoidance in Consumer Choice: Do Avoidance Tendencies and Motives Vary by Age?
Published in Experimental Aging Research, 2023
Stephanie L. Deng, Julia Nolte, Corinna E. Löckenhoff
With respect to affective responses, age differences in motivational priorities may make older adults even more sensitive to the emotional implications of information seeking than their younger counterparts. According to socioemotional selectivity theory, age-related limitations in time horizons lead older adults to pursue present-oriented, emotion-focused goals over future-oriented, information-focused goals (Carstensen, Isaacowitz, & Charles, 1999). This focus on maintaining and preserving pleasant affect leads to a “positivity effect,” with older adults selectively attending to and remembering positive information better than negative information (Mather & Carstensen, 2003; Reed & Carstensen, 2012). Consistent with this effect, the tendency to forgo consequential but potentially upsetting information is positively associated with age (Hertwig et al., 2021), and in decision contexts, age-related decrements in information seeking disappear when older adults can choose to sample positive and avoid negative information (Löckenhoff & Carstensen, 2007). Thus, age differences in information avoidance may be fueled by an age-related tendency to maintain positive and avoid negative affect.
Social Contact, Emotional Support, and Anxiety during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Older Adults with Chronic Conditions
Published in Clinical Gerontologist, 2022
Sadie M. Shattuck, Diarratou Kaba, Annie N. Zhou, Courtney A. Polenick
Socioemotional selectivity theory proposes as people age, they become increasingly motivated to maintain close social ties (Charles & Carstensen, 2010). Consequently, social contact and emotional support may be more critical to managing anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic for older people (Birditt, Turkelson, Fingerman, Polenick, & Oya, 2020; Van Orden et al., 2020). Alternatively, social contact and emotional support may be less consequential among older adults because of their enhanced capacity for coping during crises. Perhaps in part due to past experiences with other crises, older individuals have demonstrated better coping during the pandemic (Birditt et al., 2020; Carstensen, Shavit, & Barnes, 2020). Previous theoretical and empirical work suggest the importance of understanding whether social contact and emotional support are more strongly associated with lower anxiety symptoms among older than younger individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic. This knowledge would provide insight into targeted interventions and preventative measures to reduce anxiety among adults aged 50 and older who are living chronic conditions during the current pandemic and in future public health crises.
Emotional arousal deficit or emotional regulation bias? An electrophysiological study of age-related differences in emotion perception
Published in Experimental Aging Research, 2018
James R Houston, Joshua W Pollock, Mei-Ching Lien, Philip A Allen
When it comes to the issue of how cognition differs with age, there is considerable evidence to suggest that younger and older adults experience information differently beyond general age-associated performance deficits (e.g., Allen et al., 2001; Cerella, 1985; Salthouse, 2011; Verhaeghen, Vandenbroucke & Dierckx, 1998). However, age-related differences in emotional experiences are not typically framed in terms of dynamic interrelationships between cognitive and affective neural systems. Rather, it is more common for aging researchers to identify these adult age differences as reflective of a dynamic affective experience related to older adults’ conscious appraisal of their changing social environment and motivations. This type of approach is associated with the well-accepted socioemotional selectivity theory (SST). Put briefly, SST hypothesizes that the knowledge of diminishing longevity on the part of older adults creates a shift in the emotion-related goals that coincide with a preference for positively valenced emotional stimuli and away from negatively valenced emotional stimuli (Carstensen, Isaacowitz & Charles, 1999; Mather & Carstensen, 2005).