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Emotional Differences in Young and Older Adults: Films as Mood Induction Procedure

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Title
Emotional Differences in Young and Older Adults: Films as Mood Induction Procedure
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, July 2018
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01110
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Luz Fernández-Aguilar, Jorge Ricarte, Laura Ros, Jose M. Latorre

Abstract

Film clips are proven to be one of the most efficient techniques in emotional induction. However, there is scant literature on the effect of this procedure in older adults and, specifically, the effect of using different positive stimuli. Thus, the aim of the present study was to examine emotional differences between young and older adults and to know how a set of film clips works as mood induction procedure in older adults, especially, when trying to elicit attachment-related emotions. To this end, we use this procedure to analyze differences in subjective emotional response between young and older adults. A sample of 57 older adults and 83 young adults watched a film set previously validated in young population. Their responses were studied in an individual laboratory session to elicit 6 target emotions (disgust, fear, sadness, anger, amusement and tenderness) and neutral state. Self-reported emotional experience was measured using the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM). Our results show that film clips are capable of evoking positive and negative emotions in older adults. Furthermore, older adults experienced more intensely negative emotions than young adults, especially in response to disgust and fear clips. They also reported higher arousal than young adults, especially in the case of sadness, anger and tenderness clips. Nevertheless, the older adults recovered more easily from the effects of the emotion induction. The young adults reported higher arousal ratings than older adults in response to amusement film clips. On the other hand, this study reflects the importance of controlling the baseline state to study the real strength of mood induction. Overall, current data suggests significant differences occur in emotional response in adult age and that film clips are an effective tool for studying positive and negative emotions in aging research.

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Unknown 102 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 22%
Student > Bachelor 20 20%
Student > Master 16 16%
Researcher 8 8%
Other 4 4%
Other 8 8%
Unknown 24 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 30 29%
Neuroscience 8 8%
Computer Science 5 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 5%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Other 16 16%
Unknown 34 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 03 July 2018.
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#13,264,943
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