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Age Differences in the Experience of Daily Life Events: A Study Based on the Social Goals Perspective

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, September 2017
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Title
Age Differences in the Experience of Daily Life Events: A Study Based on the Social Goals Perspective
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Frontiers in Psychology, September 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01623
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Authors

Lingling Ji, Huamao Peng, Xiaotong Xue

Abstract

This study examined age differences in daily life events related to different types of social goals based on the socioemotional selectivity theory (SST), and determined whether the positivity effect existed in the context of social goals in older adults' daily lives. Over a course of 14 days, 49 older adults and 36 younger adults wrote about up to three life events daily and rated the valence of each event. The findings indicated that (1) although both older and younger adults recorded events related to both emotional and knowledge-acquisition goals, the odds ratio for reporting a higher number of events related to emotional goals compared to the number of events related to knowledge-acquisition goals was 2.12 times higher in older adults than that observed in younger adults. (2) Considering the number of events, there was an age-related positivity effect only for knowledge-related goals, and (3) older adults' ratings for events related to emotional and knowledge-acquisition goals were significantly more positive compared to those observed in younger adults. These findings supported the SST, and to some extent, the positivity effect was demonstrated in the context of social goals.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 25%
Student > Master 3 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Unspecified 1 5%
Researcher 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 8 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 9 45%
Unspecified 1 5%
Computer Science 1 5%
Social Sciences 1 5%
Unknown 8 40%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 August 2023.
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#192
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