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  • Gerontology
  • Affective Science

Background:

  • Advancing age is often associated with improved emotion regulation.
  • This may manifest as reduced negative affect in response to daily stressors.
  • Previous research on age differences in stressor-affect associations yielded mixed results.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine adult age differences in the within-person association between everyday stressors and negative affect.
  • To investigate the impact of study design on findings related to aging and emotion regulation.

Main Methods:

  • Coordinated analysis of 7 studies: 5 ecological momentary assessments and 2 daily diary studies.
  • Examined within-person associations between reported stressor occurrences and negative affect.
  • Analyzed age differences in the stressor-negative affect association across diverse study designs.

Main Results:

  • Stressor occurrences consistently predicted higher negative affect across all studies.
  • A general pattern of age-related decreases in the stressor-negative affect association was observed but not consistently significant.
  • Studies may be underpowered to detect small age differences in within-person associations despite good power for detecting the main stressor-affect link.

Conclusions:

  • While stressors robustly predict negative affect, age-related benefits in emotion regulation are not consistently detected.
  • Study design, assessment intervals, and participant numbers are crucial for examining age differences in stressor-affect associations.
  • Coordinated analyses are valuable for identifying consistent effect directions but highlight challenges in achieving statistical significance for age differences.