age of emotion regulation
Emotion regulation through the ages 123. between the limbic system and the outer layers of the cortex, in which limbic reso-. nance guides focused perception and reappraisal (Lewis et al. in press; Tucker 2001). Emotion Regulation i... | Older age is normatively associated with losses in physical, cognitive, and social domains. Despite these losses, older adults often report higher levels of well-being than do younger adults. How can we explain this enhancement of well-being? In this article, we consider one poss... For example, Isaacowitz uses eye tracking technology to study attentional biases that may facilitate individual and age differences in emotion regulation, whereas Mather and Urry employ fMRI to understand age-related changes in emotional regulation. Emotion regulation through the ages 1 a function of a child’s temperament? Or a reflection of how the parent self-regulates around the stresses involved in parenting? What is clear is that emotion-regulation does not simply kick in when the brain reaches a certain level of maturation, although the growth of the prefrontal cortex 2. Emotion regulation through the ages 1 exercise as it becomes problematic for children to walk to school (Franco et al. 2007; Cotman et al. 2007); the decline of organized sports (Ratey 2008); changing family and social patterns (Mustard et al. 2007); changing leisure pursuits (Healy 1999), and Emotion regulation through the ages* Stuart Shanker York University This paper reviews how emotion-regulation has been an archetypal, even a defining theme in the history of Western views about healthy mental functioning. The ancient Greeks bequeathed a constricted view of emotions, What is clear is that emotion-regulation does not simply kick in when the brain. reaches a certain level of maturation, although the growth of the prefrontal cortex. is clearly a critical factor in the development of emotion-regulation (Diamond 2002; Stuss & Alexander 2000). The research now needs to see how malleable these looking patterns are, and if we can use them to facilitate better emotion regulation and ultimately health in a wider swath of the population. Another way to tackle this same problem is to take a neurological perspective on older adults’ emotional attention and memory. One theory posits that the positivity effect is actually due to reduced amygdala function in aging, but Mather argued that it could alternatively be active emotion regulation. The reason why emotion-regulation has become such a leading issue in recent years may in part be due to rapid societal changes and demands that have resulted in a growing number of children with problems regulating their emotions, or children Emotion regulation through the ages 121. self-stimming or perseverating might be able to maintain a feeling of relative calm, but. such actions will significantly inhibit the child’s capacity to attend to other aspects of. her environment (Casenhiser in preparation; Casenhiser et al. in preparation).
Emotion regulation through the ages 123 between the limbic system and the outer layers of the cortex, in which limbic resonance guides focused perception and reappraisal.