Sentences with phrase «rapidly regulated their mood»

Based on past findings that older adults endorse statements of mood stability (e.g., Lawton et al., 1992), we expected that those older individuals who rapidly regulated their mood would maintain that positive affective state as time progressed.

In addition, older participants who rapidly regulated their mood scored significantly lower on LOT items measuring pessimism compared with younger rapid regulators, t (23) = 3.45, p <.01; however, a significant difference in levels of optimism was not found, t (23) = −.73, p =.47.

As indicated by high first slider ratings, older adults seemed to be rapidly regulating their mood more than younger adults.

In addition to the low N of younger adults, a limitation of the current study is that we do not know if the affective profile of older rapid regulators — low trait anxiety, depressive symptoms, levels of neuroticism, and high levels of optimism — caused them to rapidly regulate their mood or if rapid mood regulation promotes this particular pattern of affect - relevant traits.

Not exact matches

Rapidly regulating older adults were able to maintain their regulated mood over time, whereas rapidly regulating young adults showed only transient, and not sustained, reguRapidly regulating older adults were able to maintain their regulated mood over time, whereas rapidly regulating young adults showed only transient, and not sustained, regurapidly regulating young adults showed only transient, and not sustained, regulation.

Additionally, with more years of emotion regulation experience, young rapidly regulating individuals may come to resemble their older counterparts both in affective profile and in their ability to sustain a regulated positive mood over a prolonged period of time.