Adapting to situations: Emotion regulation flexibility across adulthood

摘要

Flexibly adjusting emotion regulation (ER) strategy use to situational affordances is assumed to be beneficial and individuals are thought to become better at flexible ER as they age. We test these ideas in individuals 25-85 years old by assessing their ER strategies, location, activity, social context and situational appraisals 5x/7days. We will use multivariate mixed effect location scale models to assess flexibility and its associations with well-being and age.