TY - JOUR
T1 - Anxieties about aging and death and psychological distress
T2 - The protective role of emotional complexity
AU - Bodner, Ehud
AU - Shrira, Amit
AU - Bergman, Yoav S.
AU - Cohen-Fridel, Sara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - Death and aging anxieties are related to higher psychological distress, but no study has examined whether these relationships are moderated by emotional complexity, an important indicator of adaptive emotional regulation among older adults. Participants (N = 188; mean age = 57; range = 29-100) rated their death and aging anxieties, general psychological distress, and reported their emotions on a daily basis over 14. days. Results showed that emotional complexity moderated the relationship between each of the two anxieties and psychological distress (i.e., the positive relationship between the two anxieties and psychological distress existed only among subjects with low emotional complexity). The findings suggest that emotional complexity buffers against psychological distress, and can be further explored as a facilitating mechanism in protecting against the negative mental health effects of aging and death anxieties.
AB - Death and aging anxieties are related to higher psychological distress, but no study has examined whether these relationships are moderated by emotional complexity, an important indicator of adaptive emotional regulation among older adults. Participants (N = 188; mean age = 57; range = 29-100) rated their death and aging anxieties, general psychological distress, and reported their emotions on a daily basis over 14. days. Results showed that emotional complexity moderated the relationship between each of the two anxieties and psychological distress (i.e., the positive relationship between the two anxieties and psychological distress existed only among subjects with low emotional complexity). The findings suggest that emotional complexity buffers against psychological distress, and can be further explored as a facilitating mechanism in protecting against the negative mental health effects of aging and death anxieties.
KW - Aging
KW - Aging anxiety
KW - Death
KW - Death anxiety
KW - Emotional complexity
KW - Psychological distress
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84926434161&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2015.03.052
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2015.03.052
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SN - 0191-8869
VL - 83
SP - 91
EP - 96
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
ER -
