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Differences between young and older adults in physiological and subjective responses to emotion induction using films.


ABSTRACT: Emotional response in aging is typically studied using the dimensional or the discrete models of emotion. Moreover, it is typically studied using subjective or physiological variables but not using both perspectives simultaneously. Additionally, tenderness is neglected in emotion induction procedures with older adults, with the present work being the first to include the study of physiological tenderness using film clips. This study integrated two separate approaches to emotion research, comparing 68 younger and 39 older adults and using a popular set of film clips to induce tenderness, amusement, anger, fear, sadness and disgust emotions. The direction of subjective emotional patterns was evaluated with self-reports and that of physiological emotional patterns was evaluated with a wearable emotion detection system. The findings suggest a dual-process framework between subjective and physiological responses, manifested differently in young and older adults. In terms of arousal, the older adults exhibited higher levels of subjective arousal in negative emotions and tenderness while young adults showed higher levels of physiological arousal in these emotions. These findings yield information on the multidirectionality of positive and negative emotions, corroborating that emotional changes in the adult lifespan appear to be subject to the relevance of the emotion elicitor to each age group.

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Aguilar L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7471684 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Differences between young and older adults in physiological and subjective responses to emotion induction using films.

Fernández-Aguilar Luz L   Latorre José M JM   Martínez-Rodrigo Arturo A   Moncho-Bogani José V JV   Ros Laura L   Latorre Pablo P   Ricarte Jorge J JJ   Fernández-Caballero Antonio A  

Scientific reports 20200903 1


Emotional response in aging is typically studied using the dimensional or the discrete models of emotion. Moreover, it is typically studied using subjective or physiological variables but not using both perspectives simultaneously. Additionally, tenderness is neglected in emotion induction procedures with older adults, with the present work being the first to include the study of physiological tenderness using film clips. This study integrated two separate approaches to emotion research, compari  ...[more]

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